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Project Dune 1.6.3 is released
Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 09:23.This new release of the project fixes mostly installation issues, connection issues
and a couple of problems that occurred after the latest Hibernate upgrade.
xUnit.net 1.0.3 is released
Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 09:26.This release of the .Net unit testing tool adds support for Resharper 4.0 and 4.1 and fixes a number of issues.
Python 2.6 is Released - Thanks!
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Corey Goldberg) on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 14:47.
Python 2.6 is official:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
What's new in Python 2.6:
http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html
Thanks to all the devs and contributors.. you make my programming life great.
A good writeup here:
http://jessenoller.com/2008/10/02/python-26-is-released/
James Whittaker on Why MS Software "Sucks" Despite Our Testing
Submitted by SteveRowe on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 17:23.A friend turned me on to this post by James Whittaker. I didn't know he had a blog so now I'm excited to read it. He has a lot of really interesting things to say on testing so I encourage you to read his blog (now linked on the left) if you are intrigued by testing.
TotT: Simulating Time in jsUnit Tests
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (dastels) on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 18:15.Sometimes you need to test client-side JavaScript code that uses setTimeout() to do some work in the future. jsUnit contains the Clock.tick() method, which simulates time passing without causing the test to sleep.
For example, this function will set up some callbacks to update a status message over the course of four seconds:
For example, this function will set up some callbacks to update a status message over the course of four seconds:
function showProgress(status) {
status.message = "Loading";
for (var time = 1000; time <= 3000; time+= 1000) {
// Append a '.' to the message every second for 3 secs.
setTimeout(function() {
status.message += ".";
}, time);
}
setTimeout(function() {
// Special case for the 4th second.
status.message = "Done";
}, 4000);
}
What the Certification Sales Lady Said…
Submitted by james on Fri, 03/10/2008 - 00:32.At the Star conference, this week, the lady at the ASTQB booth was executive director Lois Kostroski. The ASTQB is the American chapter of the ISTQB. Here’s the gist of the conversation we had about certification…James: “Do you need any experience to get certified?”Lois: “No, you just have to pass the exam.”James: “What are the [...]