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This month’s theme is Java 10 to tie in with the release of the new Java version. Despite being only 6 months since Java 9, there are some really exciting new features. I am going to look at the experimental JIT compiler that is part of Project Graal. What is Project Graal? Project Graal was…
Java 10 is out now, just a few months after the major Java 9 release brought us modularity, jshell and the G1 garbage collector. It is the first in the new system of smaller, incremental releases. It is also the first to be named after its release date. Under the new versioning system releases…
Code quality is arguably one of the most important parts of Software Development – badly written code can cost time and money as you’ll waste time working out what code actually does before you can do anything with it. There are many ways to prevent bad quality code from being written, but they often involve…
Recently I have been looking at our current test suite looking for ways to improve our own tests. As we use Bitbucket we have spent some time looking into Pipelines to improve how we run our tests. Whilst Pipelines is a very useful tool we have found there to be limitations that would make its…
In my previous article, I worked on code quality in NetBeans IDE. In this article, I am using IntelliJ IDEA to improve my Java code. IDEA has plugins to support PMD and FindBugs and SonarCube but it also comes with its own static analysis capabilities. The Analyse menu gives you the option to Inspect code…
