Archive for November, 2009

  • Southland Tales, an apocalyptic sci-fi/drama/spoof/political satire written and directed by Richard Kelly, is a movie that all software team leaders and product owners should be aware of. They should carefully study this forgotten piece of recent film history and learn valuable lessons from it. They should do so not because...

    The danger of releasing too early

    Southland Tales, an apocalyptic sci-fi/drama/spoof/political satire written and directed by Richard Kelly, is a movie that all software team leaders and product owners should be aware of. They should carefully study this forgotten piece of recent film history and learn valuable lessons from it. They should do so not because...

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  • Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce is a TDD book, but unlike any other on the market today. First of all, the book deals mostly with advanced unit testing topics, such as designing tests for readability and mocking, and addresses many common stumbling...

    Dark arts of TDD explained

    Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce is a TDD book, but unlike any other on the market today. First of all, the book deals mostly with advanced unit testing topics, such as designing tests for readability and mocking, and addresses many common stumbling...

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  • To my great surprise, someone has offered to take over my webtest fixtures project (fitnesse+selenium RC integration for java and .net), which I’ve discontinued over a year ago. Chris McMahon and Marisa Seal are now the new mummy and daddy of the project. You can read what Chris had to...

    Webtest now has a new mummy and daddy

    To my great surprise, someone has offered to take over my webtest fixtures project (fitnesse+selenium RC integration for java and .net), which I’ve discontinued over a year ago. Chris McMahon and Marisa Seal are now the new mummy and daddy of the project. You can read what Chris had to...

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  • It was a real pleasure to talk at the Gaming Technology Forum on Friday, thanks for inviting me. Here are the slides. I’ll write a short article on the strategies (2nd part of the presentation) and post it later this week on this web site.

    From dedicated to cloud infrastructure

    It was a real pleasure to talk at the Gaming Technology Forum on Friday, thanks for inviting me. Here are the slides. I’ll write a short article on the strategies (2nd part of the presentation) and post it later this week on this web site.

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  • I got this e-mail from a reader today: I don’t know how can I test asynchronous systems. We develop Voice Communication System applications and everything is based on (asynchronous) request-response. I’m trying to write unit tests for such application [...] What is the preferable way to do it? Here I...

    How to test asynchronous systems efficiently

    I got this e-mail from a reader today: I don’t know how can I test asynchronous systems. We develop Voice Communication System applications and everything is based on (asynchronous) request-response. I’m trying to write unit tests for such application [...] What is the preferable way to do it? Here I...

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