Message-Driven Architecture Across Multiple Teams

Whenever I start planning a new message-driven architecture that spans several software teams, I quickly realize how many moving parts there are. To keep my head clear, I’ve put together a personal checklist of things I always try to cover. It’s not meant to be a formal rulebook, but more of a practical reminder of what usually makes the difference between smooth collaboration and endless headaches. Figure 1. Message Driven Architecture Article Cover Image...

September 5, 2025 · 15 min · 3154 words · Micha Kops

Oh JBehave, Baby! Behaviour Driven Development using JBehave

Behaviour Driven Development is the keyword when we’re talking about test scenarios written in an ubiquitous language, strong interaction with stakeholders, product owners or testers and well described, common understandable test scenarios. The popular JBehave framework is our tool of choice here and allows us to decouple our test stories from the test classes, offers an integration for web tests using Selenium and finally there’s a helpful Maven plugin for JBehave, too. ...

May 31, 2011 · 14 min · 2849 words · Micha Kops