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5 Questions with Scott Barber by a Braidy Tester

Submitted by sbarber on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 07:29. context-driven testing | general software testing | industry recognition | other online resources | performance testing | perspectives

I recently had the honor of being interviewed by Michael Hunter, a Braidy Tester, for Dr. Dobbs Portal. Check it out: 5 Questions with Scott Barber.

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Scott Barber
President & Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Executive Director, Association for Software Testing
Co-Author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
 
"If you can see it in your mind...
     you will find it in your life."
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A test is "an example of the rule in practice", but...

Submitted by Antony Marcano on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 08:36. test driven development

In Jason Gorman's post called Tests Are Instances Of Rules he says:

In test-driven development, we use tests as executable specifications of what is required of the software we create.

For this to work effectively, our tests have to convey the underlying intent. And this requires us to ponder the relationship between a test and a specification.

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Chapter 3. Kick-Starting the Test-Driven Cycle

Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Nat Pryce) on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 11:52.

We have put a new chapter of the book online: Chapter 3. Kick-Starting the Test-Driven Cycle.

You can give comments and feedback via the discussion group or as blog comments.

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Project Dune 1.6.1 released

Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 14:29.
Project Dune is a software project management tool to manage your estimates, project information, issues, releases, scrum tasks, timesheets and test execution results. This release of the project fixes a couple of bugs and has a couple of new features, mostly user interface improvements.
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BugNET 0.8 Preview released

Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 14:30.
BugNET is an issue tracking and project issue management solution built using the ASP.NET web application framework. A preview release of the next major version of BugNET has been released. This release is primarly geared towards gaining comments and feedback regarding the direction of this release and to give everyone a look of what has been done to improve the application and address many of the major new features in the issue tracker.
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Python - Downloading Binary Files

Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Corey Goldberg) on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 14:49.
Here is a quick example showing how to download and save a binary file (image, zip, etc) to disk using HTTP. This will grab the image file from a website and save it locally:
import urllib

url = 'http://www.goldb.org/images/goldb.png'
f = urllib.urlopen(url)
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Trends, Papers, and SOA

Submitted by Alexander Podelko on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 15:56. non-functional testing | performance testing
I quickly found that my capacity of what I can do in addition to regular work is pretty limited: while I was writing a paper for the upcoming CMG conference and then helping a little with the conference organization as CPE (Computer Performance Evaluation) Subject Area Chair (CMG is a volunteer organization), I wasn't able to blog or update my site (probably more energy than time). Now this is mainly over: the CMG preliminary agenda was just published. It is time to summarize and move forward.
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Writing Testable Code

Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Misko) on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 17:29.
by Miško Hevery

So you decided to finally give this testing thing a try. But somehow you just can't figure out how to write a unit-test for your class. Well there are no tricks to writing tests, there are only tricks to writing testable code. If I gave you testable code you would have no problems writing a test for it. But, somehow you look at your code and you say, "I understand how to write tests for your code, but my code is different ". Well your code is different because you violated one or more of the following things. (I will go into the details of each in a separate blog posts)
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Pex 0.6 Released

Submitted by Jonathan de Halleux on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 19:06.

Read on Nikolai's announcement on the latest drop of Pex.


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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Top Screen Resolutions - My Web Visitors

Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Corey Goldberg) on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 21:45.
This is a breakdown of screen resolutions from visitors to my site and blog during the past 30 days

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Why critical thinking is more imortant than ever

Submitted by Paul Gerrard on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 22:51.

I'm an optimistic sort of fellow and I really thought that promotions like this:

http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1214245967_728.html?src=RU_bp_08_06_08...

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New tool added - Blerby Test Runner

Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Thu, 07/08/2008 - 00:00.
Ajax test runner for php. Currently supports simpletest and phpunit 3.x. Allows developers to refactor code while being able to receive instant feedback on their changes. Tracks test dependencies and automatically re-runs appropriate tests upon source changes.
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