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Kent Beck: "We thought we were just programming on an airplane"

JUnit, a simple testing framework created by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma during a long airplane trip a few years ago, ushered in a new era of developer testing. A cottage industry grew up around "*Unit" clones, for example NUnit, a version used to unit test Microsoft .Net programs....

Tags: JUnit, Kent Beck

Blog posts 2006-05-25

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Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure

Some IT projects are destined to fail due to haphazard planning, poor execution, or unexpected changes in the business or technical environment. Given the high incidence of failure, innovative methods for uncovering weak projects are always welcome. If discovered in time, risky projects can be fixed or killed; of course,...

Tags: Software, Project, Information Technology, Failure, IT Success, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-25

JUnit Reloaded

JUnit is the most widely used (unit-) testing tool in the Java world. There are other powerful test frameworks out there, such as TestNG which is very comprehensive, but they've never enjoyed the broad acceptance JUnit has. With version 4, Kent Beck and Erich Gamma introduced the first significant API...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Tool, JUnit, Productivity

White papers 2006-12-07

Erich Gamma: A pattern of success

Mention the name "Erich Gamma" and what comes to mind? Patterns? Unit Testing? Eclipse? In his relatively short career, Erich has had a profound impact on the way software is developed, earning him a spot among "The People Who Shape Technology". Patterns The concept of software design patterns really got...

Tags: Erich Gamma

Blog posts 2006-07-19

Kent Beck: "We thought we were just programming on an airplane"

Kent Beck: "We thought we were just programming on an airplane"What about TestNG?It's a pity that even now, Kent is still not even acknowledging TestNG's existence, nor that TestNG inspired most of the ideas that JUnit4 supports...Long before TestNGThere was NUnit 2.0/2.1 which to the best of my knowledge pioneered...

Tags: Development tools, TestNG, programming

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

JavaOne Day 3: GWT, Blu-ray, PHP, JUnit 4, and more!

It's mid-way through JavaOne and this was probably the most interesting day yet! My "stack of stuff" pile is overflowing with notes from the conference, but here are the most important highlights from the sessions I attended or heard about:Google Web Toolkit GWT debuts. Google redefines Ajax programming by...

Tags: Java, PHP, Blu-ray disc

Blog posts 2006-05-18

ObjcUnit 1.2 (Mac)

ObjcUnit is a unit testing framework for Objective-C on Mac OS X. It's design was copied from JUnit, written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck, and then adapted somewhat for Objective-C. Distributed under the IBM Public License 1.0.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Oops AB, ObjcUnit, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-03-03