Worked on enhancing the test tooling infrastructure for the apple/servicetalk repository, focusing on improving the reliability and maintainability of the testing stack. Upgraded the JMH plugin from version 0.7.2 to 0.7.3 and the SpotBugs plugin from 5.0.13 to 5.2.5, ensuring that these changes were scoped exclusively to test environments and marked as test-only to avoid production impact. Updated gradle.properties and the associated lockfile to reflect these adjustments, demonstrating proficiency in Gradle and build tool configuration. The work emphasized careful evaluation in a non-production context, contributing to a more robust and up-to-date testing workflow.