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When formulating assertions, JUnit quickly reaches its limits. The AssertJ and Google Truth libraries offer new possibilities ...

In my last post, I wrote about hints provided in NetBeans 7.4 beta that improve a developer’s ability to avoid nasty runtime issues with Java exception handling. In this post, I look at how two more ...

The NetBeans IDE provides JUnit integration that can be very handy when writing and running JUnit-based unit tests. However, I like to be able to do anything I might do often outside of the IDE as ...