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Grey-box techniques for excluding tests

heuristics
Don’t test the reused code tested previously – you will have more time to test new code. This heuristic for a black-box tester is basically all the idea of this blog – one I was creating for a week … I started this as blog about techniques, but wanted to be clear about grey box. A research on the term ended quite a long story below. If you don’t care about it – scroll down to the last chapter describing the techniques.

.NET P2P web search

imageFaroo is P2P web search built with .NET.  They only require .NET 2.0 so it wasn't built using WCF PeerChannel.  They have add-ins for IE and Firefox.

New tool added - Robot Framework

Robot Framework is a Python-based keyword-driven test automation framework for acceptance level testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). It has an easy-to-use tabular syntax for creating test cases and its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java. Users can also create new keywords from existing ones using the same simple syntax th

FlexMock, RubyCocoa, and Notifications

I was using FlexMock to test code using Cocoa NSNotifications. I discovered an odd thing, which might be useful to someone doing a Google search some day.My setup code originally looked like this: def setup @observed = NSObject.alloc.init @watcher = flexmock(NSObject.alloc.init) endThe notification connection was set up [...]