Archive for November, 2006

Test Categorization with TestNG

I asked you all earlier: What defines a test suite in your organization?

I’ve also written about TestNG and now Andy Glover brings them together with this Dev2Dev article Test Categorization Techniques with TestNG This is a great article, go check it out.

PHP for IIS 7… Is twenty five times faster a big deal to you?

Running PHP on Windows is nothing new. However, shipping a module that not only supports PHP on IIS 7.0 but is potentially 25x faster than the previous version is huge news… http://scottwater.com/blog/archive/fastcgi-for-iis-7-0.aspx

This makes me happy. I don’t often have to deal with PHP on Windows, but when I do I think […]

Mind Maps for Testing

I learned about mind maps at Thoughtworks, where they had been in use for test case management (and lots of other things) long before I arrived. The key advantage of mind maps, as Robert Sabourin points out in the article, is that “…misunderstandings and ambiguities are exposed and resolved in real time as […]

Cardboard cut out’s found in restroom.

I hope I never find an Antonio Banderas cut out, ever.

Today in my downtown office building, someone found a life-size cardboard cut out of Antonio Banderas in a ladies restroom. No one knew how it got there or why it was there. If it was yours, sorry for your loss […]

Why you should care about Boxing and Unboxing

Most people probably will not run into a situation where boxing and unboxing are going to really matter in their applications, others do. Read this post to see how a module’s heap usage went from 103MB to 16MB.

Take the TagLib.ByteVector class. It serializes many formats of data into a collection of bytes. […]