The Disco Blog

All things related to code quality, man! This week’s bag includes:

• The World’s Simplest Unit Testing Framework- Cay Horstmann describes using println‘s for assertions.
• Unit Testing Tips- Cameron Purdy lays out 6 hip tips for effective developer testing.
• Why Do Pointless if Statements Even Compile?- Many a nefarious defect has arisen from this relaxed syntactical rule of the Java language.
• Testing J2ME applications- Yours truly points out some interesting J2ME testing articles.
• How JavaNCSS calculates cylcometric complexity- rwhansen muses about the differences between how various tools calculate cyclomatic complexity.
• Is Test-Driven Development Overrated?- Adam Wiggins doesn’t think so, man!
• Code Coverage Coverage- Mandy Ownes has some good vibes on code coverage.
• moreUnit, a handy Eclipse plug-in for marking up tested code and generated test stubs version 0.6.1 was released
• You’re ugly and your code is, too- Burke Cox doesn’t miss a beat to tell you how he feels.
• Managed Debugging Assistants- Managed Debugging Assistants work with the CLR to provide information on runtime state. Neat-o!
• 2007 Conference for the Association of Software Testing- call for papers open.
• AnthillPro 3.0 Released- The boys in Cleveland have an interesting Build Management Server.
• Java Unit Testing and Refactoring Event!- Codign Software and Vision Technology Services are hosting a tripping free workshop on Java unit testing and refactoring in Baltimore.