Tutorials

In this blog, we're going to explore how to work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in IntelliJ IDEA. We'll start by setting up IntelliJ IDEA to connect to AWS. Then, we'll highlight a few features that are beneficial when working with AWS from your IDE. This blog post covers the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher links to additional information. Setup To configure IntelliJ IDEA to work with AWS, we need to install the AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ IDEA plugin and configure th

If you missed our last IntelliJ IDEA live stream, it’s be easy to get up to speed. Just head to our YouTube or Twitch channel and watch the recording. During the stream, Mala Gupta and her guest Yuriy Artamonov showed us the ins and outs of JetBrains’ WebService testing solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUaOZ6kvJ0&t=8s This informative and hands-on episode gave us a great chance to do some in-depth learning about one of the core plugins of JetBrains IDEs. Obviously, the developers’ toolbox can offer you many solutions for web service testing. You can even pick one of th

Spring Data JPA is a powerful framework that allows users to easily interact with their database while minimizing boilerplate code. We've created a new tutorial on the IntelliJ IDEA Guide to help you get started using Spring Data JPA in your applications. You'll learn about Spring Data JPA by creating a simple Spring Boot application that uses Spring Data JPA to read and write from a database. Tutorial: Getting Started with Spring Data JPA This new guide format breaks down the tutorial into individual sections with detailed steps, screenshots and code. Along with learning about Spring Data

We all need to tailor our tools to suit our personal needs and those of our team. This tutorial will help you find the settings you need, change them, and subsequently share them.

A few months ago we published a video on how IntelliJ IDEA integrates with Gradle. This has proved so useful that we've turned it into a tutorial on the IntelliJ IDEA Guide: Working with Gradle. This new format breaks down the video into individual sections. Each section is small, focused, and contains not only the video section but a text walkthrough, with code examples and screenshots where necessary. Tutorial: Working With Gradle Some of the topics it covers are: Creating a new projectAdding Gradle dependenciesOpening a Gradle projectThe Gradle tool windowRunning Gradle tasksGradl

We'd like to introduce you to our fresh new IntelliJ IDEA Guide! We've been working on this in the background for a few months now by collecting tips and even taking some of our screencasts from YouTube and turning them into tutorials for our guide.

We've now covered all the key features for creating and running tests with Spock. In Part 5, we finish up the Spock tutorial by looking at additional features that can help you to write short, descriptive, correct tests. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mocking and Stubbing Part 5 - Other Useful Tips These blog posts cover the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to a

In Part 4 of our Spock tutorial, we look at mocking and stubbing. The Spock framework has mocking and stubbing built in. Creating, using and verifying mocks and stubs is nicely aligned with the way the tests are written, and can lead to very readable tests. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mocking and Stubbing Part 5 - Other Useful Tips These blog posts cover the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reade

In Part 3 of our Spock tutorial, we'll look at Data Driven Testing. This is one of my favourite things about Spock, although it is also supported in other frameworks like JUnit 5. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mocking and Stubbing Part 5 - Other Useful Tips These blog posts cover the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to additional information. (more…)

In Part 2 of our Spock tutorial, we'll look at writing Spock tests in more detail, including some tips on how to get the most from Groovy. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Testing Part 4 - Mocking and Stubbing Part 5 - Other Useful Tips These blog posts cover the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to additional information. (more…)

Spock is a really interesting framework for writing automated tests on the JVM. Spock tests are written in Groovy, but they can be used to test Java classes as well. Check out our 30 minute video tutorial on how to write tests using Spock, or follow along with this series of blog posts, which contains code samples and links to further information. Or do both! In this post, Part 1 in the series, we're going to cover just enough to get you started with a brand new project for writing Spock tests. Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started Part 2 - Writing Tests Part 3 - Data Driven Test

In this tutorial we're going to look at features of JUnit 5 that can make it easier for us to write effective and readable automated tests. All code in this tutorial can be found in this GitHub repository. This blog post covers the same material as the video. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to additional information. (more…)