Jason Porter

JASON PORTER has been crafting software since he was 12. A couple of years before that, he discovered the amazing world of computers and programming on an old 80286 while looking through games written in BASIC. His interest in programming led him to Java and then C/C++. He became involved in web development in the early days, with Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Fighting with things like DHTML and layers occupied his time. At the venerable age of 15, Jason got a job with a local web development company and spent time coding websites and writing CGI scripts in Perl. (He tries to forget those days, though.) Since that time, he’s worked in various industries, coding in Java, PHP, Ruby, C#, and JavaScript. He primarily considers himself a backend developer, but the entire coding landscape is his playground.

At Red Hat, Jason has worked on various frameworks, websites, and integrations. He’s spoken in the United States and internationally and is tickled every time he can help someone better understand a programming concept or new technology. Jason lives in Utah with his lovely wife and five children, whom he can’t program as easily as a computer.

books by Jason Porter

Exploring Testing Java Microservices
  • May 2019
  • ISBN 9781617297182
  • 102 pages

Microservices applications are made up of single-responsibility mini-applications called services that work together as a system. Microservice architectures can speed up production and are optimized for change and reusability, because you can change and add components without re-engineering the whole application. Ensuring quality software still requires rigorous testing, and microservices pose several unique testing challenges.

Exploring Testing Java Microservices is packed with tips and tricks that will help you write automatic tests to speed up the testing process for your Java-based microservices applications. Containing three chapters hand-picked from Testing Java Microservices by Alex Soto Bueno, Andy Gumbrecht, and Jason Porter, this free eBook starts by taking you through contract tests that verify your entire system. You’ll discover how Docker helps with your testing and find out how to test your system even when there are components that have yet to be built. When you’re finished, you’ll have three new techniques to add to your testing toolbox to increase your test coverage and productivity.

Testing Java Microservices
  • August 2018
  • ISBN 9781617292897
  • 296 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Simplified Chinese
catalog / Software Development / Software Engineering / Code Quality and Testing / Software Testing

Testing Java Microservices teaches you to implement unit and integration tests for microservice systems running on the JVM. You’ll work with a microservice environment built using Java EE, WildFly Swarm, and Docker. You’ll advance from writing simple unit tests for individual services to more-advanced practices like chaos or integration tests. As you move towards a continuous-delivery pipeline, you’ll also master live system testing using technologies like the Arquillian, Wiremock, and Mockito frameworks, along with techniques like contract testing and over-the-wire service virtualization. Master these microservice-specific practices and tools and you’ll greatly increase your test coverage and productivity, and gain confidence that your system will work as you expect.