James A. Whittaker, of considerable testing fame, has published both on the Google Testing blog as well as in IEEE Software an article on the so called '10 Minute Test Plan'. This test plan is also described in detail in the book 'How Google Tests Software'
When creating documents, tables and presentations, I am often looking for a simple symbol to express a 'tick' as in 'this is okay' or 'this is supported'. Especially the Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, ...) do not seem to provide such a tick symbol in
Interesting links discovered this week: * MoriTanosuke/glacieruploader · GitHub A simple java command line application for Amazon Glacier. tags: amazon [amazon glacier](https://www.diigo.com/user/max_rohde/amazon glacier) glacier upload java * Travis CI - Free Hosted Continuous Integration Platform for the Open Source Community tags: [continous integration](https:
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Now, after 204 laborious steps, a first version of illustrative demos on the Appjangle Showcase has been completed. Appjangle Showcase The showcase consists of 10 interactive demos following the development of a simple example application: The Wall of the Wise! The full source code of the demos is available on
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Problem You would like to deploy a Java Maven project you are developing using the Netbeans IDE to your Maven repository. Solution Right click on your project in the Netbeans 'Projects' view and select the Custom / Goals … in the drop down menu as shown below. Type 'deploy&
* What storytelling does to our brains tags: writing stories storytelling psychology * Doctest.js: the humane Javascript test framework Doctest uses a novel approach to testing: example and expected result. Each test is a chunk of code that prints out results and side effects, and then the expected result is matched
* HTTPS Server in Java using Netty and KeyStore tags: netty https ssl * Cross-domain Ajax with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing | NCZOnline "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing" tags: javascript sop [same origin policy](http://www.diigo.com/user/max_rohde/same origin policy) cross-domain rpc ajax * Building Google Cloud Storage "Building Google
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Background Due to some issues with a transparent proxy apparently employed by Vodafone New Zealand, a signed SSL certificate had to be added to the REST server in the Appjangle cloud in order to serve resources 'protected' from Vodafone's caching efforts. One REST server in the
* How NOT to Design Your API | Javalobby tags: api [best practice](http://www.diigo.com/user/max_rohde/best practice) industry [api design](http://www.diigo.com/user/max_rohde/api design) * Milk & Honey, an Online Shoe Company Started by Sisters - NYTimes.com tags: cases [business cases](http:
The Problem While testing pages with heavy JavaScript usage in HtmlUnit, great amounts of heap memory are allocated but never released. Solutions There are numerous solutions, which can be applied to fix an OutOfMemory error related to HtmlUnit: Call webClient.closeAllWindows(); The first often suggested remedy to fix a HtmlUnit
Background The opsunit framework allows to continuously run a number of JUnit unit tests and do some maintenance/repair work upon any failed test. The latest addition to the test suite for the Appjangle platform is a simple unit test, which checks the remaining free memory on the server node.
* HttpClient - HttpClient SSL Guide "HttpClient provides full support for HTTP over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or IETF Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols by leveraging the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE)" tags: apache httpclient ssl https Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
