Ashley Frieze

Software developer, stand-up comedian, musician, writer, jolly big cheer-monkey, skeptical thinker, Doctor Who fan, lover of fine sounds

Software Development
Ashley FriezeApril 8th, 2020
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Exceptional Happenstances
Happenstance testing is a test smell where you are asserting something more specifically than relevant to what you’re testing. For…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeApril 6th, 2020
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RTFE – Read The Flaming Error
It’s a common issue when trying to start up your application. Something goes wrong, there’s a load of trace on…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeApril 2nd, 2020
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TDD – Brakes on or off?
This was originally posted on LinkedIn as Life without TDD – Driving with the brakes off, or driving with no…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeMarch 27th, 2020
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The Feature Magnet
God, I hate enum in Java. (Well, I don’t, but it got your attention didn’t it!?) Here’s a simple chain…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeMarch 13th, 2020
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The BDD Spectrum
I’ve written about options around BDD before. I have described how there’s a broad range of approaches you can choose…
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Core Java
Ashley FriezeMarch 6th, 2020
3 484
Call That An Exception?
While this is a Java example to do with testing and wiremock, it relates to a more universal problem. We…
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Software Development
Ashley FriezeMarch 6th, 2020
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Half a Helper Method
I’ve probably seen this happen more in test code, where thinking is often even more procedural than normal. It’s certainly…
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Core Java
Ashley FriezeMarch 5th, 2020
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Mythematical Codey Code
Consider the following snippet: int max = 10; int a = 0; while (true) { // do a thing that…
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Enterprise Java
Ashley FriezeMarch 3rd, 2020
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It Broke vs You’re Wrong
When building REST APIs for microservices, there are a few design decisions to make about responses. Some responses are clearly…
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