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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

Inheritance and composition are two programming techniques developers use to establish the relationship between classes and objects. Whereas inheritance derives one class from another, composition ...