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From breadboard chaos to a real PCB: designing the Pi4J smoke test board

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Testing a Java I/O library properly means testing it on real hardware. No mocks, no stubs, just actual pins doing actual things. For Pi4J, that means running the smoke test: a setup with two BMP/BME280 sensors, some GPIO-to-GPIO jumper connections, and a bunch of patience while you untangle the wires for the third time this week.

Foojay Podcast #52: JCON Report, Part 4 – Garbage Collectors, Intelligence Cloud, Test Containers and Flaky Tests, ToxiProxy, Structured Concurrency, Virtual Threads

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Garbage collectors, virtual threads, and flaky tests sit at the heart of many Java teams’ daily headaches. At JCON we caught up with speakers who had fresh, hands-on takes on each of these topics. In this fourth part of our JCON series we talk with Gerrit Grunwald, Balkrishna Rawool, Piotr Przybyl, François Martin, and Annelore Egger for Foojay Podcast #52.

Foojay Podcast #43: Modern Java Testing

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Every Java developer wants to ship code that works, but tests often feel like a tax instead of a tool. The testing pyramid we all learned about does not always match what we hit in real projects. We sat down with Oleg Šelajev, Roni Dover, and Jonas Geiregat in Foojay Podcast #43 to dig into how modern Java teams actually approach testing today.