Where is that checklist again? I often find myself asking. Over the years, I built up a set of checklists. These lists including tools & methods, are based on my personal experience and they were very effective for teams I’ve worked with, since those teams span over various companies, sizes and even countries, I think these tools also may very well apply to your team.

To reduce duplication and rigidity of the programmer test relationship to implementation code, move away from class and methods as the definition of a “unit” in your unit tests. Instead, use the following question to drive your next constraint on the software: What should the software do next for the user? The following coding session [...]

This tutorial builds on the example presented in a previous tutorial. Here we will explore the difference between the Hibernate second-level cache and the standard query cache and how the two can be used in conjunction to reduce the number of database transactions in an application.

This tutorial presents an exploration of the Hibernate second-level cache. By the end, we will have the tools to integrate Ehcache into a web application and to expire its entries at fixed, regular intervals using the Quartz scheduler to run a Spring batch process.