McGhan, Harlan and M. O'Connor. “PicoJava: A Direct Execution Engine For Java Bytecode.” Computer 31 (1998): 22-30.Link to paper: https://pdfs.semanticschola... (more…)

Welcome to the February edition of VS Code update for Java. Spring is approaching. It’s a season for refreshing, no exception to VS Code. In this edition, we will present you with our experiment of a new Welcome Page and re-designed icons. (more…)

Introduction to Flaky Tests Unit testing forms the bedrock of any Continuous Integration (CI) system. It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reli... (more…)

I just had an interview, and I was asked to create a memory leak with Java. (more…)

A while ago, I had to analyse a large java heap dump, generated by one of our servers after a memory leak. This was hard. I usually use Eclipse MAT for the job, but this time, it was so large the tool could not parse the heap dump in an acceptable time, ... (more…)