Jul 17, 2022 • 3 min
If you are a developer you are probably working on a large and complicated codebase. Unfortunately a lot of existing code lacks automated tests and adding them can be challenging, particularly if the code is old or poorly structured. Testability has always been an aspect of architecture that people have said is important but all too often I see this aspect ignored. Approval testing is a technique that helps you to get a difficult codebase under test and begin to control your technical debt. Approval testing works best on larger pieces of code where you want to test for multiple things. Because of this, the architecture of the system is really important for success with this testing technique.
Apr 26, 2021 • 9 min
Les Hazlewood, CTO @ Stormpath gives an in-depth overview of what makes a RESTful API. The original video on which these notes are based is not available any more. I fell back on the video of JAXConf.