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Interesting Links – 17 Oct 2016

JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation offers deployers a chance to compile the base Java modules to native code. This can save time on some optimizations, but it’s understandably limited (and should be). The Halstead Metrics (also known as “Halsted metrics”) discusses code complexity in Java. Worth considering; this particular explanation comes courtesy of JHawk, a commercial code metrics tool, not to be confused with “j-hawk“, an open source testing tool. Experimenting with...

Oct 17, 2016 — 1 minute(s) read

#halstead #halsted #jep #jhawk #jit #jvm #mutation-testing #testing

Interesting Links, 27 Jan 2016

Mutation Testing: Watching the Watchmen talks about the need for mutation testing, in addition to addressing the desire for unit testing. His point is: unit testing is good – do it. But it’s often not enough, and he promises to go more into mutation testing as an enhancement in future posts. JOOQ has published If Java Were Designed Today: The Synchronizable Interface, discussing what could have been designed as opposed to what we got with...

Jan 27, 2016 — 2 minute(s) read

#documentation #junit #lint #mutation-testing #mutexes #synchronized #testing