Articles by Christian Nelson

Christian Nelson

Christian Nelson

Versioning your IDEA module meta-data (.iml)

On one of our larger client projects, we’ve been tackling an array of improvements to the development environment. This is largely motivated by the fact that it’s a big project with lots of modules and engineers and time lost dealing with environment issues was expensive and frustrating. Everyone wants to be productive without having to

Christian Nelson

Christian Nelson

DBUnit 2.2, Spring, and Testing

You may have noticed that DBUnit changed its connection closing behavior in v2.2. We noticed it when tests deriving from our custom DatabaseTestCase implementation (which uses DBUnit) starting failing. Initially we just reverted back to version 2.1. Since then I’ve discovered what the problem was and found a workaround, and while I was at it,