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for comments and announcements. Here's a synopsis of recent entries: Making a mockery of your objects - 2005-July-25 Using the Test::MockObject library to help unit test Perl code. Whaddya mean, ports? We've got no ports here! - 2005-June-15 I recently needed to test a feature in an application that worked something like this: the application will try to listen on network port 1000, and if that port is already in use, it will try ports 1001-1099 in sequence until it succeeds. So of course, I wondered what happens if all ports are already in use. I was happy to find that writing a Perl script that can "squat" on a given port and thus make it unavailable to other programs on the same computer was easy to do. Here's my "portsquat" script... All in Good Time - 2005-June-3 I sometimes do informal performance testing where I need to have a stopwatch. On a project not too long ago when I needed to test how long a device could run off of a capacitor after I removed the battery, I followed the time-honored process of googling for the first free program I could find that seemed to work. One of the first options I tried was TimeLeft, which worked well enough for what I needed.... My Monkey - 2005-May-12 I've been experimenting with monkey testing through a Windows GUI lately, that is, using a test script that clicks randomly on the screen. I've been surprised at how many bugs it's found in the application I'm testing. I thought I'd write about the technique I used to develop my monkey and the free tools that made it possible.... 2005-March-9 Here's an update on the Mantis bug tracking tool. I reviewed Mantis 0.18.2 in May 2004. The most recent version is 0.19.2, which the project team I'm working with now is using for their bug tracking.... 2005-March-2 Henry Wasserman releases Samie 2.0 and the Slingshot development tool for Samie. |
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