Blogs

January 08, 2013

New Year's Resolution: No More Bugs

Someone once told me that my job (and all my colleagues) should be eventually eliminated because they were an unnecessary expense. Instead, he said, it would be cheaper to never have any failures.

December 13, 2012

Debugging by Hypothesis

There's a technical term for people who claim that their programs don't compile because of a compiler failure rather than a bug in their own programs: arrogant.

August 17, 2012

Remote Mobile Debugging in Firefox 15

Firefox 15 has a cool new remote debugging feature for mobile developers.




Testing

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C++ Reading List

The new C++11 standard has led to a flood of new books and updates to classics. These are the core books you need.

Why Aren't There Better Testing Tools?

Static analysis, UI record and playback, and load testing dominate today's testing tools. Just like they did in the 1990s. Where's the progress?

Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools

The best testing tools of the past year

Ada 2012: Ada With Contracts

The most important new feature in Ada 2012 is support for contract-based programming, which adds more validation of mission-critical code to a language already famous for its focus on reliability.

Jolt Awards 2013: The Best Programmer Libraries

The best programmer libraries of the past year

Testing News RSS

TotalView Debugging Support for Intel Xeon Phi

TotalView 8.12 support for Cray XC30 supercomputer series and Apple

Name Refactoring Comes Just-In-Time

Collaborative software test automation solution from LogiGear

Free Code Review Shop For Ten-In-A-Team Developers

CodeReviewer from SmartBear is a free code review tool for the SoapUI community

Sauce Labs App Test Cloud Adds Android

Appium on Sauce — automated testing for native apps supports Android, iOS, and mobile web hybrid apps

Your Favorite Automatic Data Endianness Conversion

AdaCore feeds CodePeer an GNAT

450 Million Lines Of Scanned Software Code Can’t Be Wrong

Defect density (defects per 1,000 lines of software code) measurement report released

Soasta and CloudBees Team For Jenkins Plugin

Mobile platform tool for continuous integration

One Million SoapUI Community Testers Can't Be Wrong

SmartBear WebLoadUI offers open source community route for complex stress and load testing

An Objective-C IDE Done Right?

AppCode 2.0 integrates with Kiwi testing framework and documentation browsers

High-Risk Iterative Test Cases To Address Requirements

Jama Contour 3.6.2 integrates with defect tracking and test automation solutions

Events of Interest

June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference

June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference

June 24-28. San Jose, CA. 2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013

July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013

July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit

August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo

September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)

September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013

October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013

October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp

Ocotber 23-25. San Fransisco, CA. API Strategy and Practice Conference

October 28-30. London, United Kingdom. JAXLondon 2013 Big Data Conference


Videos of Past Events

March 2013. GPU Technology Conference

September 2012. Strangeloop

September 2012. Intel Developer Forum

August 2012. VMWorld

July 2012. Java Language Summit

June 2012. Google I/O 2012

May 2012. Atlassian Summit

May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference

March 2012. Multicore World

July 2011. JVM Language Summit



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