Resources
Symflower's blog features a variety of informative posts on a range of topics related to software development. Sign up four our newsletter to make sure you never miss our posts. Here's a selection of our top content so far:
Symflower's technology
- Symbolic execution vs fuzzing for creating test values
- Symflower & GitHub Copilot: AI vs Symbolic Execution for Software Testing
- Java Fuzzing with Jazzer compared to Symflower
Spring Boot
- Introduction to Spring Boot
- Understanding the Spring framework: Spring vs Spring Boot vs Spring Web MVC vs Spring WebFlux
- Best practices for testing Spring Boot applications: a complete guide
Java
- The top Java unit testing frameworks & tools
- The best IntelliJ IDEA productivity plugins for Java developers
- Mocking frameworks for Java: Mockito vs EasyMock vs JMockit
- What is new in Java 20?
- JDK 21: What is new in Java 21?
JUnit
- Java Unit Testing Frameworks Compared: JUnit vs TestNG
- How to write JUnit test cases? A step-by-step guide with examples
- How to write JUnit test cases: advanced techniques
- How to run JUnit 5 tests with Gradle?
- JUnit testing tips and tricks 1/3: How to ignore test cases in JUnit 4 and 5?
- How to migrate from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5: a step-by-step guide
Programming principles
- Programming principle "DRY": Don't Repeat Yourself
- Programming principle "YAGNI": You Ain't Gonna Need It
- Programming principle "Chesterton's Fence": Understand the current state before changing it
- Programming principle "KISS": Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Testing theory, concepts & techniques
- Unit testing vs integration testing
- What are the different code coverage types?
- How to test your tests? A guide to mutation testing & mutation testing tools
- Chaos engineering 101 & Best practices for chaos testing
- Security testing tools and techniques
- What is the testing trophy and how does it help better test software?
- What is the testing pyramid and how to use it? [+Example]
- The software testing jungle