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Production or Custom Test Data for Unit Testing?
I've recently had a little disagreement with fellow developers. We're transforming various ontologies from the original source format (Pica+, RDF, etc) into our data format and have several converters ...
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Writing data driven reflection based tests to ensure design completeness [closed]
When writing software I'm often forced to at some point to make a decision that involves a design pattern of "by convention" naming and behavioral patterns. This normally makes me feel kind of slimy ...
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How to structure our Javascript so that it is easily editable, testable, and can make calls to render a view without knowing specifics about the view
I am working on a web app that displays some data and uses javascript.
Right now, we are serving up parts of our js (to display certain types of information, ie "Render a View") via our server which ...
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Writing selenium tests, should I just get it done or get it right?
I'm attempting to drive my user interface (heavy on javascript) through selenium. I've already tested the rest of my ajax interaction with selenium successfully. However, this one particular method ...
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When module calling gets ugly
Has this ever happened to you? You've got a suite of well designed, single-responsibility modules, covered by unit tests. In any higher-level function you code, you are (95% of the code) simply ...
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Config Class/Struct: Pattern or Anti-Pattern? Alternatives?
If you add new configuration options to a program, it can often have tons of ripple effects in terms of getting the options to where they need to be acted upon. There are three basic ways to deal ...
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From analysis to application
Which learning path would you recommend to be able to create complete application from requirement analysis, design (with various diagrams) to coding and testing?
It's not easy to get this knowledge ...
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Turn away a bug if no reproducible test case exists?
If customer has problems which are not reproducible because of complexity of actions they took they can't remember step by step - coders are missing a test case.
Indeed the issue is apperently ...
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Should Whitebox testers be involved in the software design process?
Should Whitebox testers be involved in the software design process and why?
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Does “notification center” pattern encourage good or bad program design?
Sometimes I come across these message-hub-style APIs, for example the Cocoa NSNotificationCenter: ...
