In the second part of the series - Maven Plugin Testing - In a Modern way - Part II we have seen how to make the basic integration test while checking the log output of Maven builds.

In this third part we will dive into how Maven will be called by default during the integration tests and how we can influence that …

In the first part of the series - Maven Plugin Testing - In a Modern way - Part I we have seen how to make the basic setup with The Integration Testing Framework and run very basic integration test.

In this second part we will take a deeper look into other aspects of testing Maven plugins in particular how we check the …

You have decided to write a Maven Plugin. Now the important part comes around the corner: How to test a Maven Plugin? There are in general several options to test a Maven Plugins for example:

• Maven Invoker
• Maven Verifier
• Maven Plugin Testing Harness
• etc.

You can read about different reason not to use one of those …

The story started with a Twitter Post about the JDK method bitCount which is available for Long and Integer types.

If you take a look into the time line, there was a reply https://twitter.com/ScottSelikoff/status/1254185742760280064 by @ScottSelikoff (funny comment of course) who stated 42 as the answer to life, the …

During a code review I suggested a code improvement related to JDK8+ streams. The original code looked very similar like the following:

1List<Element> result = content.getFancyStuffs().stream()
2  .flatMap(item -> {
3        List<Element> objects = new ArrayList<>();
4        objects.add(item. …

I quite often see Spring Boot projects which are using the spring-boot-starter-parent as the following:

 1<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 2  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 …

As I wrote in my previous post about automation I would continue my post. So here it is.

The following parts are left from my process:

The process

1. Create an issue for myself (if already existing move to step 2)
2. Create a branch within the appropriate project based on the issue
3. Assign the issue to myself
4. Migrate the …

So based on my passion as open source developer in particular for the Apache Maven Project. I work JIRA based which helps us and myself to organize our work and of course follow the reported issues, feature request etc.

So usually I start my work based on a particular issue in JIRA and go via the following process:

The …

We have released a new version of the The Jenkins API client for Java. The new released 0.3.7 contains several bugfixes and new features. Detailed information about the changes can be found in the release notes.

This is the second release under the Jenkins Github Organization umbrella.

• Build class offers now two …

We have released a new version of the The Jenkins API client for Java. The new released 0.3.6 contains several bugfixes and new features. Detailed information about the changes can be found in the release notes.

This is the first release under the Jenkins Github Organization umbrella.

• The TestReport can now be used …