I’m looking at writing integration tests for the back end of JavaRanch‘s JForum install. A few “pesky” requirements/constraints Multiple developers all over the word have their own local test databases filled with data in different states.  The tests must work for everyone.  Ideally they won’t leave data floating around either. The tests must use PostgreSQL.  [...]

Don’t you just hate threading errors?  They are hard or impossible to reproduce.  It’s hard to figure out exactly what’s going on.  It’s hard to tell if you fixed it. The problem We’ve had a problem at JavaRanch for about a month where some posts mysteriously didn’t appear.  The problem was at its worst early [...]