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Twitter- 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.
Archive for the ‘Weekly Bag’ Category
The weekly bag– Aug 1
August 4th, 2008 The weekly bag– July 25
July 28th, 2008 Enjoy the hip links, baby:
- CM Crossroads on SCM for Small Teams- configuration management tips are always helpful reading, man.
- JSR 326 – Post mortem JVM Diagnostics API- interesting stuff, indeed.
- JBehave 2.0 in progress- 2.0 is making its way out to the world– should be interesting to check it out.
- Tim Bray slams SOAP … and Java- REST is the future, baby!
- Community Restlet tutorials- speaking of REST, there are a lot of resources out there!
- The Code Reuse Myth- interesting take on this one.
The weekly bag– July 18
July 18th, 2008 Enjoy the reading, baby:
- Continuous Integration at Agile 2008– boy, there are a lot of CI talks at Agile 2008 this year.
- Top 10 Things I do on Every Project- #9 is using Google’s Guice! Oh wait, he works for Google.
- An Introduction to Lean Thinking for Software- this is a good read– it reminds me of a classic quote from CITCON in Denver a few months back. My friend Jeffrey Fredrick mused that “source code is inventory” — essentially meaning it’s excess baggage until in binary form and in production.
- Finally Treeware- my friend Neal Ford’s book is finally available! I received mine the other day– it promises to be an excellent read.
- Code Reviews- he has some good points– do you do code reviews?
- Testing Anti-Patterns: Underspecification- my friend Jason Rudolph explores code coverage quite nicely.
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Tags: Agile, ci, citcon, code coverage, code review, guice, lean, testing 
3 Comments »The weekly bag– June 27
June 29th, 2008 - Agile Smells: Don’t Let This Happen To You!- I wonder how we went from “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” to cataloging the manifold ways to practice Agile?
- Agile Versus Lean- Speaking of Agile, man, Martin’s got something to say.
- RSpec-1.1.4- Yeah, I’m a month late to this party; nevertheless, way to go team!
- Article: Best Practices for Model-Driven Software Development- Apparently, MDD “no longer belongs to the fringes of the industry but is being applied in more and more software projects with great success.” That’s super news, baby.
- Java Private Constructor Cleverness?- My friend, Hamlet has a clever format of this blog– well done, friend!
- My “Unit Test” Aint Your “Unit Test”- Great read!
The weekly bag– June 13
June 14th, 2008 A most lucky bag, baby:
- Unit tests are not integration tests- John’s got a handy technique for categorizing tests via Maven 2.
- The Handiest Java Book in Years.- Speaking of John, my friend Andrew has a stellar view of John’s latest book, Java Power Tools. I couldn’t agree more with you, Andrew!
- Is the popularity of unit tests waning?- Speaking of Andrew, he’s got a great post here with a lot of insightful comments. Well worth the read, man!
- Automation for the people: Pushbutton documentation- Paul Duvall’s got a hip article here, baby.
- When To Use Mock Objects?- This is a good read– I tend to eschew mocks; thus, when I do use them they are worth the effort and provide a good deal of handiness.
- 5 Things Grady Booch Has Learned About Complex Software- I’ll add three more:
- complex software is hard to test
- complex software is hard to change
- complex software is hard to kill
The weekly bag– May 16
May 16th, 2008 The weekly bag appears to be a monthly bag at this point, man!
- Java – still hot or losing its flavor?- My friends, Scott Davis and Ted Neward pontificate over Java’s future.
- Sources of Java Errors- Klocwork’s CTO would know something about this, right?
- Integrating Testers on to the Agile Team- Interesting indeed.
- FEST + Easyb: making UI testing easier- Thanks, Andres! Well said too!
- Ant Best Practices: Define Proper Target Dependencies- The doctor’s orders, baby!
- Gradle – A new Build System- Gradle or Gant? You decide.
The weekly bag– April 18
April 18th, 2008 Well, well. Looks what’s back, baby!
- JBehave 2, naming tests and developing libraries with BDD- JBehave lives! It’s copasetic to see they’re working on another release– I think it is a good move to leverage JUnit; however, I wonder if 2.0′s features will be compelling enough to use.
- Easy Does It With easyb- Speaking of JBehave and BDD, Andrew Binstock seems to appreciate easyb and its leveraging of a hip customer-oriented DSL.
- Saving the day with BDD- Customer-oriented thinking in action, baby.
- Ant Best Practices: Provide a clean target- the build doctor has a prescription for you, man.
- Infinitest v3 Released!- If you haven’t seen my friend Ben’s Infinitest yet, you should really take a look!
- Is Agile at a standstill?- If you want to have a lot of fun, ask some Agile-ists to define what Agile means…
- Problem trends with PMDReports- Trending metrics? Why would anyone want to do that, man? Seriously though, PMDReports looks great!
The weekly bag– March 21
March 24th, 2008 Missed a week! Don’t fret, such a mishap doesn’t imply there weren’t any links hip enough to list. It was disco night at the local YMCA…
- FEST in “Java Power Tools”- John’s upcoming book is a true masterpiece– I can’t recommend a better book for the Java community, baby!
- Debunking Cyclomatic Complexity- My friend, Andrew, has a copasetic argument here.
- Mockito – The New Mock Framework on the Block- Hamlet has made the switch– what do you think?
- MSBuild project analysis tool: BuildCop- The fuzz is after your build, man!
- Better Best Practices- Dan North’s article is definitely worth reading.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Test- This post reminds me of an excellent quote: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance” (Derek Bok, Former President of Harvard).
The weekly bag– March 7
March 8th, 2008 Sorry to have missed the leap year weekly bag, baby. Without further ado:
- Design and Code Reviews : The Good, Bad and Ugly- my friend Kirk Knoernschild’s article gets a good review on InfoQ. Definately worth the read, baby!
- What is a good example of unit test over specification?- looks like Roy is covering all the bases with his upcoming book– that should be a great read!
- TotT: Understanding Your Coverage Data- a timeless conversation.
- Speed up your Unit Tests NOW!!!- GridGain looks super interesting, man!
- Do I always write a test?- Because it’s her bag, Elizabeth shocks Uncle Bob.
- Practical unit testing- Don’t believe in 100% code coverage?
The weekly bag– Feb 22
February 25th, 2008 Sockin’ it to you, baby:
- StatSVN rocks- Indeed it does, baby!
- Custom MSBuild Tasks- Start coding them!
- TotT: Too Many Tests- A good problem to have, I’d say.
- Glean v1.3: Code feedback tools for Ant- John’s got a good thing with Glean!
- FEST-Assert 1.0a1 released!- Have you checked out what Alex and team are up to?
- Java Power Tools: where it’s at- I can’t wait for this book to be officially released!