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How many times do you need to use the name of the branch you are currently working on ? Entering the name of the branch into your CI/CD system to deploy your feature branch into a staging environment, sending the name over email or internal messaging app to a co-worker who you are pair-programming with… I seem to need to do this quite frequently over the course of a working week, and the place I always go to get the branch name is Intellij.

I think it is fair to say that JUnit has been my go to unit testing framework for quite a while. I have used TestNG on some pretty major projects where it was already in use (and it has some awesome features) but if I am building something from scratch, I will most likely reach for the JUnit maven dependencies. This was solidified even further with the release of JUnit 5.

Like many others, I have been reading about the new programming workflow introduced by Kent Beck called test && commit || revert (TCR) When I first heard about it I had much the same response as Kent - why the hell would you want to do something like that? That can’t possibly work, my tests don’t always pass when I am experimenting - I would lose my code if I did this.

Well, what can I say? It has been nearly a year to the day that I posted my original Hello World post and I think it is fair to say that there hasn’t been a great deal of activity since. That isn’t to say that it hasn’t been an extremely busy 2018. I just completely failed to write about any of it which is a shame. 2018 was filled with some pretty cool stuff: