- Web Component Testing Screencast- my friend Rod Coffin demonstrates some interesting aspects related to efficient web testing.
- Software Is Deployed, Bugs and All- does this surprise you?
- % test coverage doesn’t provide useful information- you are correct, man; in fact, code coverage is only effective at telling you what you haven’t tested.
- Java Performance Tuning: A Conversation With Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine- great quote: “Complex code tends to confuse [just-in-time compilers], so that they provide either suboptimal optimizations or no optimizations at all.” Oh yeah, not to mention complex code is a bear to maintain!
- Minimalist Coding Style- now, what would Kirk say regarding this style of coding?
- Unstable code- speaking of code, Oren’s got a brain teaser here, although “unstable” is quite a generic term and thus, might have lead to the number of different comments he received.
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JarAnalyzer in Google Code
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How Long-Term is Your Strategy?
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Printing an array in multiple table columns
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The weekly bag– Aug 1
Posted by:
Andrew Glover
on 08/04/2008
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About Andrew Glover
Andrew was the founder of Vanward Technologies, which was acquired by JNetDirect in 2005. Subsequently, he served as President of Stelligent Incorporated.
Andrew is the founder of the easyb BDD framework and the co-author of Addison Wesley's "Continuous Integration", Manning's "Groovy in Action" and "Java Testing Patterns". He is an author for multiple online publications including IBM's developerWorks and Oreilly's ONJava and ONLamp portals. He actively blogs about software at thediscoblog.com.