Curl-loader is a powerful C-written web application testing and load generating tool. It uses HTTP, FTP and TLS/SSL stacks, simulating tens of thousand users / clients each with own IP-address. The goal is to provide an alternative to Spirent Avalanche and Ixia IxLoad. The version includes performance improvements. * Advanced to libevent-1.4.4, which is supposed to deliver better performance for high loads

Ejb3Unit - out of container EJB 3.0 testing. Ejb3Unit is a JUnit extention and can execute automated standalone junit tests for all JEE or Ejb3 projects. The out of container approach leads to short build-test-cycles, no container deployment is needed. This is the first version 2.0 release candidate

PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release fixes a few bugs in the 4.2.1 version but does not introduce major changes. See the Changelog for details. The refactoring effort that will lead to pmd 5.0 has been started on the main trunk (5.0 will not be backward compatible with pmd 4.x). The team may release other 4.2.x versions with minor fixes if needed until 5.0 is released.

I’ve been talking to Jason and Jonathan, the post-Agile guys, about post-Agile. I don’t get it, but that’s OK. What it made me realize is that a properly obscure name for the kind of software development I want to do is…Retro-FuturistMicro-ScaleAnarcho-SyndicalismIt is supposed to connote:Back to giddy optimism!Technology! Shiny!Don’t fret about “Them”Goal

I'll be doing a presentation called "Six Short Talks About Software Testing" for the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality (TASSQ) on Tuesday evening, May 27, 2008. It'll be a 90-minute session wherein I'll give of a six set of lightning talks, with time for questions between each one and a longer discussion afterwards.

After a recent flurry of coincidental trollings from various folk about the contentious term "Post-Agilism", I've come to a decision:

It's just not worth arguing about

The arguments are all of the circular "oh, but that is Agile, isn't it?" variety. To the extent that one correspondant claims that if doing waterfall development works for you, than that is Agile. Which is errent nonsense, surely.