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Testing OO Systems, Part 1
OO tests stimulate an object and observe that object's behavior. The tests do not look at the object's state to judge whether or not the test succeeds, they just look at the object's behavior. When I call dog.expressHappiness(), my test succeeds when I observe that wagTail() is called. I would never look inside the dog at the isHappy field.
Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools
The Annual Award for Best Testing Products
ASP.NET and Testability: An Uneasy Relationship
Making ASP.NET apps testable ranges from the easy to the very difficult. Knowing how to tweak the framework for testability simplifies the process.
Behavior-Driven Development With easyb
easyb is an open BDD framework for the Java platform with an out-of-the-box reporting tool that provides test results in HTML and XML formats. It enables you to write executable documentation by which you can validate your apps.
No Tool or Combination of Tools Can Assure Fail-Safe Code
The government's analysis of Toyota's automotive code revealed errors and failures. But despite extensive overlapping forms of testing and modeling, it could not prove or clear the software as a contributor to unintended acceleration.
Testing News
2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Winners
Jack Andraka, Nicholas Schiefer, and Ari Dyckovsky take top honors.
How To "Increase The Quality" Of Your APIs
SmartBear API testing and monitoring software
NT OBJECTives: Top 10 Business Logic Attack Vectors
Penetration testers offered specific instructions, real-world examples, and code-snippets
Social Collaboration For Software Testing Platform
Coverity 6.0 testing platform now features CoverityConnect
ALM For The "Agile-ish" Multi-Methodology World
TechExcel DevSuite 9.0 features multi-site support for globally distributed teams
The Tester's Trinity: Traceability, Visibility, and Defect Dashboards
Micro Focus updates Silk Central and Silk Performer
Telerik Puts Bigger Endpoint On End-To-End
Ramped up load testing capabilities, strong HP tracking tool integration
Smarter Than The Average Load Testing Bear
SmartBear loadUI Pro and upgraded soapUI for today's "complex composition applications"
Atlassian Shoots New Test/Plan Branches Into Bamboo 4
Continuous Integration Server now offers quarantined tests
Dynamic .NET Process Profiling From JetBrains
dotTrace 5.0 performance profiler locates bottlenecks in running processes
Events of Interest
May 29-31, San Francisco, CA. Fluent 2012: JavaScript and Beyond
June 4-6, Nashville, Tennessee.Magic Software Users Conference
June 11-14, Bellevue, WA. AMD Fusion12 Developer Summit
June 11-14, Orlando, FL. Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 18-20, New York, NY. QCon New York
June 26-29, Boston, MA. 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World
June 27-29, San Francisco, CA. Goole I/O Conference
July 9-12, San Francisco, CA. JAX Conference - Java, Cloud, Android, Agile
July 16-20, Portland, OR. OSCON
August 6-10, Redmond, WA. Visual Studio Live
August 20-24, Munich, Germany. DrupalCon Europe
August 27-30, San Francisco, CA. VMworld 2012
September 11-13, San Francisco, CA. Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2012)
September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop
September 29-30, San Francisco, CA. MySQL Connect Conference
September 30-October 4, San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
October 6-7, Los Altos, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
October 22-24, San Francisco, CA. Windows Phone DevCon
October 23-25, Ludwigsburg, Germany. EclipseCon Europe 2012
October 24-25, New York City. The Strata Conference
November 7-9, San Francisco, CA. QCon
December 10-14, Orlando, FL. Visual Studio Live
Best of the Web
What the New iPad and iOS 5.1 Mean for Developers
The new display is gorgeous. But local storage for HMTL5 is currently broken on the new iPad and performance of some apps is slower. Here's a deep dive into the issues, including benchmarks and analysis.
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
Embedding GDB Breakpoints in C Source Code
Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? Something like this:
printf("Hello,\n");
EMBED_BREAKPOINT;
printf("world!\n");
Writing Kernel Exploits
Why attack the kernel? Because it has a huge attack surface with potential for very interesting bugs. This presentation (pdf) takes a code-level dive into recently reported Linux-kernel exploits.
