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TotT: Time is Random
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (dastels) on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 06:59.How can a method be well tested when it's inputs can't be clearly identified? Consider this method in Java:
/** Return a date object representing the start of the next minute from now */
public Date nextMinuteFromNow() {
long nowAsMillis = System.currentTimeMillis();
Date then = new Date(nowAsMillis + 60000);
then.setSeconds(0);
then.setMilliseconds(0);
return then;
}
Feynman Lectures Available Online
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 07:32.If you hanker for a bit of enlightenment from one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers and communicators, you'll no be as delighted as I was to find this series of lectures from the late great physicist Richard Feynman.
Another Continuous Background Testing Tool
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 07:45.Josh Chisholm has kindly sent me a link to a tool that runs your unit tests in the background while you work, this time for Ruby.
Josh notes:
Just wanted to mention that another tool, autotest does this and is quite popular in the Ruby community. It's not tied to any IDE, you just keep a command window open or a command panel in your favourite editor. I believe the RadRails and Netbeans IDEs have built-in autotest support.
Josh notes:
Just wanted to mention that another tool, autotest does this and is quite popular in the Ruby community. It's not tied to any IDE, you just keep a command window open or a command panel in your favourite editor. I believe the RadRails and Netbeans IDEs have built-in autotest support.
Practical Testing: 16 - Fixing a timeout bug
Submitted by /* Rambling comments... */ on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 11:28.Back in 2004, I wrote a series of articles called "Practical Testing" where I took a piece of complicated multi-threaded code and wrote tests for it. I then rebuild the code from scratch in a test driven development style to...
Testing — Mission Impossible?
Submitted by Jason Huggins on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 21:18.… test automation created by a siloed QA team working in isolation to reverse-engineer existing software and automate tests against an untestable UI using proprietary tools accessible only to a few select team members is guaranteed to be incredibly expensive both to create and to maintain, and also ridiculously fragile.
People still do that?! :-) No [...]
Draft Complete!
Submitted by james on Sat, 05/04/2008 - 00:30.My new book is done! Sort of.I finally have a complete draft of How I Learn Stuff: Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar.All I need now is a publisher.I had the idea for a book like this 26 years ago (original title: “School Kills”).I had the idea for this specific book 18 years ago.The oldest text in [...]