The object-oriented unit testing framework began as Smalltalk's Beck Test framework http://www.xprogramming.com/testfram.htm%22%20target=%22NewWindow. It evolved to the JUnit http://www.junit.org/index.htm%22%20target=%22NewWindow framework for Java. Beck defined four repeated patterns of unit testing software, covered in a previous …
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eWeek's slavish lack of clue http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1872253,00.asp; Paul Thurott's lack …
more ...The object-oriented unit testing framework began as Smalltalk's Beck Test framework http://www.xprogramming.com/testfram.htm. It evolved to the JUnit http://www.junit.org/index.htm framework for Java. Beck defined four repeated patterns of unit testing software:
The Fixture. The thing we are …
Kontrawize says http://kontrawize.blogs.com/kontrawize/2005/11/java_is_the_new.html that Java is the new assembler.
/dev/null http://www.haloscan.com/comments/slott/E20051101105604/#27166 says "While we are willing to expose and discuss the problems in Java, we do it because we want to improve it, not …
more ...I like Python for exploring unknown data [One More Cool Thing About Python ].
Anthony B. Coates [Homepage ] notes "I tried Python for a while for similar reasons. However, in my case I was a bit put off by the need to learn a another library API, which is not an …
more ...Ned Batchelder : Blog [http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/index.html ] identifies no less than 6 unit testing frameworks for Python [http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200510.html#e20051025T070731 ] and [http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200411.html#e20041120T185622 ].
TestGears [http://www.turbogears.com/testgears/ ] is part of the TurboGears web uber-framework …
more ...While the intent of the use case technique is clear, it requires some discipline and creativity to execute successfully.
There seem to be three attractive sinks for time and energy.
Stepping In Sequence. Often, the first use cases developed are often those that occur “early” in the business process …
I need to display my product catalog according to a number of dimensions but the data changes slowly and isn't very complex. Is a relational database and a web application really appropriate? Or can I get away with something simpler?
Some small product catalogs evolve slowly. A detailed …
The company, H, is a large, well-established financial services firm. In order to meet regulatory reporting requirements, they elected to build a data warehouse that would integrate information from 40 applications to feed an application that would produce the regulatory reports.
H put together a team of business analysts …
Here are three additional levels of numerology that just don't belong the discipline of software architecture.
Empiricism. Ideally these are from Physics and related "hard" sciences. Psychology or Economics are "hard" sciences in the other sense of hard -- they're difficult because of the subject matter. The magic number 7 ± 2 …
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