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Archive for November, 2009
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The danger of releasing too early
Posted on November 23, 2009 | 4 CommentsSouthland 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... -
Dark arts of TDD explained
Posted on November 20, 2009 | 1 CommentGrowing 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... -
Webtest now has a new mummy and daddy
Posted on November 20, 2009 | No CommentsTo 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... -
From dedicated to cloud infrastructure
Posted on November 15, 2009 | No CommentsIt 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. -
How to test asynchronous systems efficiently
Posted on November 11, 2009 | No CommentsI 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...

