Assertions have been in the software engineering canon for many years, most notably as the centerpiece of the Design by Contract facility that Bertrand Meyer built into his Eiffel programming language ...

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 ...

Part 1 of this two-part series covered the mechanics of using the new assertion facility introduced in J2SE, (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4. This installment discusses the methodology behind ...