Developers make assumptions about how our code will behave when executed, but we’re not always right. Without certainty, it is challenging to write programs that work correctly at runtime. Java ...

Marco Dahms has been working as a software architect for 18 years. His areas of expertise include clean code, continuous integration, cloud computing, distributed architectures, and Kubernetes. Unit ...

The term assert is a Java keyword that was introduced into the language with the JDK 1.4 release in February 2002. Java's assert keyword is unique in two very interesting ways: The Java assert is ...

From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. The next several Java 101 articles present a toolbox of essential Java ...

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Assertions are increasingly important verification tools because they improve design quality and increase design verification (DV) productivity, resulting in faster time to market. Table 1 summarizes ...

In my quest to find neato things to do with Java (a lot has changed since 1.1!) I've hit a roadblock. I've been testing stuff on a partially written applet (runs, just to do something more intelligent ...