In 1956, psychologist George Miller discovered that typical humans simultaneously comprehend a maximum of seven “chunks of information,” plus or minus two. His message has become a unifying theme ...

The latest update of Java on Visual Studio Code (VS Code), announced last week, focused on improving the code editor's debugging and testing features. For Java developers using Microsoft's streamlined ...

Replay Solutions records the activity of Java apps and app servers for debugging and more allowing developers to do fine grain analysis to correct problems Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of ...

Write once, debug/test everywhere is a variant on Java's write once, run anywhere claim, and it defines the Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA). The JPDA is a client/server system built from ...

Visual Studio Code developers have asked for support for more test frameworks and Microsoft said it has responded in kind, announcing initial support for JUnit 5 this week. The VS Code team previously ...

When it's time to test your code, it's not good enough to simply write a unit test or two for each method. When you write unit tests, the goal is not to test every method, but also to test each ...

When taking a test-first approach to programming (see Test before you leap), developers use unit tests to verify that that their code will function as expected. JUnit and NUnit are open source unit ...

Which Java IDE is best? Compare IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse, and NetBeans for features, usability, and compatibility with your favorite tools and frameworks. Every Java programmer needs a programming ...

The monthly update to the tooling that boosts Java development in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor highlights debugging, refactoring and more. Java tooling is provided through ...