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The Cloud Native Imperative — Results from the 2019 Jakarta EE Developer Survey

The results of the 2019 Jakarta EE Developer Survey are out. Almost 1,800 Java developers from around the world have spoken. Taken together with the engagement and response to my recent posts on the future of Jakarta EE (see my latest blog here), the survey makes clear the developer community is focused on charting a new course for a cloud native future, beginning with delivering Jakarta EE 8.

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Java Testing Weekly 20 / 2019

There are many software development blogs out there, but many of them don’t publish testing articles on a regular basis. Also, I have noticed that some software developers don’t read blogs written by software testers. That is a shame because I think that we can learn a lot from them. That is why I decided to create a newsletter that shares the best testing articles which I found during the last week. Let’s get started. Technical Stuff Mockito Strict Stubbing and The UnnecessaryStubbingException is a useful blog post that provides an introduction to strict stubbing and explains how you can create strict stubs with Mockito. Property-based Testing in Java: PBT and Test-driven Development is an interesting blog post that describes how you can write property-based tests when you are doing TDD. Running Kotlin Tests With Gradle is my blog post that describes how you can create a Gradle project that can run unit and integration tests which use JUnit 5 and Kotlin. Why test POJOs is a controversial blog post which explains why you should write tests for your POJOs. The Really Valuable Stuff Clean up bad BDD scenarios is an excellent blog post that describes how you can replace