Anyone who has submitted to Agile on the Beach in the last few years will have used our submission system: Mimas. Like so many other conference we, or rather I, created our own system. “Why does AOTB have its own submission system?” Flippant but true answer: because nobody else (yet) ... read more

Cucumber is an execution framework for a specification language. It’s not meant to be a testing language, but it’s used for creating test automation. Cucumber lends itself best to situations where there are some real-world actors interacting and achieving some sort of outcome. It’s especially useful when it can be ... read more

In this post, we feature a comprehensive article on Overloading Java Methods. Overloaded methods are methods with the same name signature but either a different number of parameters or different types in the parameter list. It is similar to constructor overloading, that allows a class to have more than one ... read more

In this post, we feature a comprehensive article on Java object. The article and the examples used are based on JDK 8. Table Of Contents 1.Introduction 2.Parts of an Object 2.1.Instance variables/methods 2.2.Static variables/methods 2.3.Constructors 2.4.Static initialization blocks 2.5.Instance initialization block 2.6.Finalizer 3.Object Methods 3.1.equals() method 3.2.hashCode() method 3.3.clone() method ... read more