I’ve been slogging my way through some testing frameworks for EJB: The Grinder, Cactus and JMeter — trying to find that quick Soap UI style entry into testing EJB. No such luck. This will take some work. So, I decided to remind myself just why we ere doing EJB in this application. I bolded the main points. Maybe […]
When I start to look at the cost of leaving quality to the wayside I’m reminded of an experience I had with a coder, Big Hero. Now back when I was a *high school athlete* in American football our coach coined a term: dummy hero. Football has a practice fixture called a scout team — […]
The one pass XSLT, it is the least. A two pass XSLT, now that is a beast. But I would give a silk pajama To never do this three pass drama. We have data that comes in from a SOAP server that is in pretty bad shape. I have a feeling the team that makes this […]
Coffee and philosophy, why not? I really miss some of the public areas to have coffee and commiserate with colleagues, since I don’t have that at my site now. If you read that recent article about Stevie Jobs — public areas breed innovation and cross pollination. I try my best. Recently I had two talks […]
I ran across some state code that had plugs in it that were operations an action listener would look for. The code methods didn’t have anything in them, but needed to be there. I wanted some simple unit testing coverage on them. Here’s a small technique to cover a void method that doesn’t do too much. Here’s […]
I was on a project with a very tough defect assigned to me. The main class consisted of 1600 lines with zeee-ro unit tests, and a McAbe index of 67. I had found numerical/scale/precision errors in some of the underlying classes and knew the source data had fields that were not necessarily being used for […]
It seems to me we are at this strange crossroads again for putting developers in a box, or opening the doors to allow them creative and utensil freedom. I would say nowdays, we are leaning as an industry towards less freedom and more box. That was the feeling I got when I started to delve […]