Joe WalnesObjects, adaptable and maintainable designs, agile, enterprise systems, XP, Java and .NET, blah blah.QDox is back - 1.6 released- (Found July 2, 2008 ) QDox history QDox is a fast JavaDocJava parser built in 2002. It was originally intended as a stop gap until Java supported annotations by allowing tools to easily get access to JavaDoc attributes. Essentially it provided nothing more than a stripped down version of the JavaDoc Doclet tool, with performance suitable for using in continual build cycles (what would take JavaDoc over ten minutes to process would typically take QDox less than ten seconds). It served its purpose well. The death of.http://joe.truemesh.com/blog//000642.html Building testable AJAX apps (Does my button look big in this)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Last week, Adam Connors and I presented "Does my button look big in this Building testable AJAX applications." at the Google London Test Automation Conference. Watch the video online (approx 50 mins). Unfortunately the code is unclear on the video, so you can also download the slides separately (13mb!).http://joe.truemesh.com/blog//000649.html Testing on the Toilet- (Found July 2, 2008 ) At Google we have pretty good internal documentation, tutorials and places to find good tips. If you know you don't know something, it won't take long to find the answer. However, it's slightly tougher to place something to be read, when the target readers don't know they don't know it. This was a problem the testing group were finding, as they wanted to improve sharing of practical testing techniques. So, Testing on the Toilet was started. A regular weekly(ish) tip posted in toilet cubicles..http://joe.truemesh.com/blog//000667.html Hamcrest 1.1 released- (Found July 2, 2008 ) http:code.google.comphamcresthttp://joe.truemesh.com/blog//000695.html XStream 1.1 released- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I'm pleased to announce the release of XStream 1.1. New features include: Improved support for serializing objects following the Java Serialization Specification: Calls custom serialization methods, readObject(), writeObject(), readResolve() and writeReplace() in class, if defined. Supports ObjectInputStream.getFields() and ObjectOutputStream.putFields() in custom serialization. Provides implementations of ObjectInputStream and...http://joe.truemesh.com/blog//000487.html |