Rocana Blog Getting Tests to Pass in Java 8

I recently went through the fun (no, really!) task of ensuring a large codebase was able to run on Java 8. It had originally been written to work on Java 6 and Java 7, and Java 6 support was dropped before I started working with it. The transition to running on Java 8 is intended to be seamless, but it's easy to have a codebase that accidentally relies on undefined JVM behavior.