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JUnit Team 💙💛 @junit.org · 10d

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released!

✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline
🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations
🛫 Integrated JFR support
🚟 Kotlin suspend function support
🛑 Support for cancelling test execution
⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher
🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs

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JUnit Release Notes

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · 18d

Honored to have been chosen as @sessionize.com Speaker of the Day!

Screenshot of sessionize.com showing the author being recognized as "Speaker of the Day"

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · 24d

I guess, the condition >today should be changed to >=today
CFP of JavaLand closes tonight

Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · 26d

Gute Besserung!

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · 28d

Also a form of coupling, but at a very detailed level, right? What belongs together should stick together. What doesn't directly belong together should be separated from the rest.

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · 28d

Containers don’t save you from a distributed monolith.

phoebe1313.bsky.social @phoebe1313.bsky.social · 29d

Multiple shipping containers fall off cargo ship into water at Port of Long Beach
@ABC7
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Multiple shipping containers fall off cargo ship into water at Port of Long Beach

YouTube video by ABC7

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · 28d

OH: headless is overhead

Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · 29d

Absolutely

Wait, did you skip the 80% of creating the demos?

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · 29d

Preparing a talk means spending 80% of the time thinking about what to talk about and the remaining 80% of the time creating the slides.

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Sep 9

Happy birthday to the shepherd of the Java community @sharatchander.bsky.social 🎂

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JCON Conference @jcon.one · Sep 6

Our next #JCON2025 session is live: 'Unit Test Your #Java Architecture With #ArchUnit' with Roland Weisleder

#Architecture and #code are drifting more and more apart? The implementation of non-functional requirements and cross-cutting concerns…

Grab your coffee and hit play: youtu.be/MxP521_i9zM

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Sep 4

#ChatGPT answering with "If you want I can..." and "Would you like me to..." is like an excited child saying "Look what I can do!"

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Sep 4

Thanks for sharing! I indeed learned some new things, for example "Trace Current Stream Chain".

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Analyze Java Stream operations | IntelliJ IDEA

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Sep 4

Clean code starts with an appropriate data structure.

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Sep 2

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Sep 1

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Unit Test Your Spring Architecture With ArchUnit by Roland Weisleder @ Spring I/O 2024

YouTube video by Spring I/O

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Marit van Dijk @maritvandijk.bsky.social · Sep 1

There's a great talk by @rweisleder.de abiut ArchUnit fyi

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Aug 25

Map<Object, Object> data;

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Aug 25

That moment 2 weeks before go-live when the client finally connects their frontend, built over 6 months, and the data model doesn’t match our API at all

kermit the frog is drinking a cup of tea and saying `` but that 's not my business '' .

ALT: kermit the frog is drinking a cup of tea and saying `` but that 's not my business '' .

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JavaForumNord @javaforumnord.bsky.social · Aug 22

#JavaForumNord 2025 - Roland Weisleder -
Freiberufler - Architecture as Code in Practice- javaforumnord.de

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Aug 22

And here I am, sitting on a friday afternoon, trying to fix an integration test that tests the interaction of mock objects based on false assumptions instead of testing the real system

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Aug 20

*opens new Java legacy project*
*opens random POJO*
*sighs deeply*

Java code snippet with two fields:
private Boolean optional = false;
private @Nullable Boolean isMandatory = null;

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Aug 20

Something that annoyed me when viewing test results in IntelliJ: it indeed shows the execution time for each test method, but not how long it took for example to start @SpringBootTest.

Today I discovered "Use Wall Time".

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Jul 23

Would love to see that as a conference talk

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Roland Weisleder @rweisleder.de · Jul 16

I'm currently using that feature in several projects where I have to compile and test code with different JDKs

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