Why COBOL Developers Prefer Writing Tests in Java - Szymon Wałachowski, Bartosz Filipek

These COBOL developers that attended told me that it's far easier to write the unit tests in Java for them because of all the simple API that we built.

And it was easier to write the logic of assertions in Java than in COBOL for them, even though their first language of programming is COBOL.

We planned and we designed this API in Java in a way that you don't need to know Java at all.

You just need to follow the brackets.

You just build additional layers of customization on top of each other and then you are tangled with customization.

The ultimate goal is to, I would put it in the short sentence, make people's life easier, right?

These COBOL developers that attended told me that it's far easier to write the unit tests in Java for them because of all the simple API that we built.

And it was easier to write the logic of assertions in Java than in COBOL for them, even though their first language of programming is COBOL.

We planned and we designed this API in Java in a way that you don't need to know Java at all.

You just need to follow the brackets.

You just build additional layers of customization on top of each other and then you are tangled with customization.

The ultimate goal is to, I would put it in the short sentence, make people's life easier, right?