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Michael Kutz

Michael Kutz

Tangles in Test Code: Hidden Arrange/Given/Setup

There is a certain sloppiness in the industry when writing test code. This causes what I call tangles. A rather subtle one of these is the…

Mar 26

Some code with hidden arrange and some symbols in foreground.

Mar 26

Michael Kutz

Grouping Gradle Kotlin and Detekt Plugins in Dependabot

detekt is provides great insight via static code analysis for Kotlin projects. But according to the detekt documentation

Mar 25

Screenshot of the GitHub pull request containing all three Kotlin dependencies and detekt.

Mar 25

Michael Kutz

Tangles in Test Code: Magic Values

Mar 13

Some test code with lots of magic values and some symbols in the foreground.

Mar 13

Michael Kutz

Tangles in Test Code: Long Arrange/Given/Setup

One of the most frequent of those I…

Mar 8

Some test code with long arrange steps and some symbols in the foreground.

Mar 8

Michael Kutz

Testing Java-Annotations of DTOs

How to test the effects of annotations in simple and fast unit tests

Mar 7

Some code with the test pyramid in foreground and text stating that annotations should not be tested in the middle, but the base of the pyramid.

Mar 7

Michael Kutz

Gradle/GitHub: Using .java-version Files to Define the Java Version

Effectively reducing the sources of truth about the used Java version to one

Dec 15, 2023

Dec 15, 2023

Michael Kutz

How to Name Tests for Maintainability

A Suggestion for More Conciseness

Feb 20, 2023

Three name tags with the test naming schemes discussed in this article.

Feb 20, 2023

Michael Kutz

Measuring Quality: Code Coverage

Delete All the Asserts?!

Feb 13, 2023

A wall of roman shields covering some Java code.

Feb 13, 2023

Michael Kutz

Selenium Silver Bullets: Clicking Moving Things Eventually

How to overcome occasional ElementClickInterceptedExceptions

Mar 29, 2021

Mar 29, 2021

Michael Kutz

Conditionals in a Declarative Pipeline Jenkinsfile

In this article I’ll show how to express conditionals — like if, else or switch — in a Jenkinsfile using the declarative pipeline syntax.

Aug 3, 2020

Jenkins Blue Ocean view showing a complex pipeline with parallel conditional stages

Aug 3, 2020

Michael Kutz

Michael Kutz

I've been a software engineer since 2009, worked in various agile projects & got a taste for quality assurance. Today I'm a quality engineer at REWE digital.

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