Alan Richardson

Alan Richardson has more than twenty years of professional IT experience, working as a developer and at every level of the testing hierarchy from Tester through to Head of Testing. Head of Developer Relations at Secure Code Warrior, he works directly with teams, to improve the development of quality secure code. Alan is the author of four books including “Dear Evil Tester”, and “Java For Testers”. Alan has also created online training courses to help people learn Technical Web Testing and Selenium WebDriver with Java. Alan posts his writing and training videos on SeleniumSimplified.com, EvilTester.com, JavaForTesters.com, and CompendiumDev.co.uk.

Articles by Alan Richardson

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What is static analysis?

Learn about Static Analysis and how can it help you write better code with examples of 5 IDE based approaches and plugins.

Feb 1, 2021

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What is Sensei?

The Sensei plugin provides an easy way to find specific code patterns in your source code, and then apply rewrite rules to amend the matching code. All within the Intellij IDE, and in real-time.

Oct 8, 2020

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Java Gotchas - Bitwise vs Boolean Operators

In this blog post we take a look at a common Java coding mistake (using a bitwise operator instead of a conditional operator), the error it makes our code vulnerable to, and how we can use Sensei to fix and detect the issue.

Feb 7, 2021

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Adding Parameters to Annotations Using Rewrite Actions

Learn how to use Sensei to match problematic code patterns and then amend them to agreed implementations with examples of annotation matching.

Oct 26, 2020

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Migrating to a Logger with Sensei

A quick example of creating a recipe to migrate from System.out.println to using a Java Logger.

Nov 30, 2020

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Sharing Cookbooks within a Team

Learn how to share Sensei cookbooks and help everyone in your team improve their code quality and productivity.

Nov 23, 2020

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Improving A Personal Programming Process Using Sensei

Learn how to use code reviews on pull requests to help enforce coding styles. And shorten the feedback cycle when pair programming with a more experienced programmer.

Dec 7, 2020

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Amending Method and Class Visibility for JUnit 5

Learn how Sensei can help migration by identifying deprecated patterns and prompting you with the fix to use going forward.

Dec 21, 2020

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How to catch and fix a Guice dependency injection issue using Sensei

An example scenario for a misconfiguration of Guice, which may lead to a NullPointerException being reported at runtime during testing.

Jan 25, 2021

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Running IntelliJ Inspections From Continuous Integration

Learn how to run Sensei and IntelliJ Intention Actions in batch mode as Inspections within the IDE, from the Command-Line, and in Continuous Integration.

Feb 15, 2021

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Using Documentation Links with Sensei

Learn how Sensei can help onboard developers and adopt new libraries.

Nov 9, 2020

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Automatically Adding a Private Constructor with Sensei

Learn how Sensei can identify a coding pattern, and automatically generate a private constructor to make it impossible to instantiate the class.

Dec 14, 2020

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Try This Online Java Gotchas Quiz

A fun little Java Gotchas quiz and supporting Github repo showing some gotchas and how to fix them

Feb 21, 2021

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Articles by Alan Richardson

What is static analysis?

What is Sensei?

Java Gotchas - Bitwise vs Boolean Operators

Adding Parameters to Annotations Using Rewrite Actions

Migrating to a Logger with Sensei

Sharing Cookbooks within a Team

Improving A Personal Programming Process Using Sensei

Amending Method and Class Visibility for JUnit 5

How to catch and fix a Guice dependency injection issue using Sensei

Running IntelliJ Inspections From Continuous Integration

Using Documentation Links with Sensei

Automatically Adding a Private Constructor with Sensei

Try This Online Java Gotchas Quiz

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