Web performance in seven steps; step 3: test representatively
Posted by Jeroen Borgers at around evening time: June 29th, 2009
Last time I blogged about the importance of benchmarking the architecture and new technology in a Proof of Concept for Performance. This time I’ll deal with the importance of representative performance testing.
Slowness of applications in development environments is often neglected with the rationale that faster hardware in the production environment will solve this problem. However, whether this is really true can only be predicted with a test on a representative environment and in a representative way. In such an environment, there needs to be more representative than just the hardware.
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Web performance in seven steps; step 2: Execute a proof of concept
Posted by Jeroen Borgers at around evening time: June 15th, 2009
Last week I blogged about setting your performance goals: defining your requirements. This time I'll blog about the importance of a Proof of Concept for performance.
The IT world is very sensitive to trends. Having been around in the IT industry for 15 years, I’ve seen a few. A technology is hot for a while, and then quickly becomes out-of-fashion and yesterdays news. It will be replaced by something which is much better and what everyone follows almost blindly.
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Fitnesse - Selenium integration struggles
Posted by Cirilo Wortel around lunchtime: April 23rd, 2009
Recently I was challenged by a client to test a new web application in an Agile project. The team was new at working Agile and even more with working together with a functional tester, altogether this resulted in me getting very little development support from the team.
Because the lack of tooling and support I focussed my efforts on just recording test-scripts using Selenium IDE, hoping I would be able to reuse them once I got the development support I had been requesting. The plan was to integrate the pre-recorded scripts in a more extended test environment in a later stage of the project.
Setting session bean property in SeamTest
Posted by Sunil Prakash Inteti in the early afternoon: April 17th, 2009
SeamTest is a class we extend for the tests we write in our Seam application. It provides the seam environment in tests something analogous to WicketTester in Wicket Application.
I want to share some information on setting the property of Session bean, i came to know while using the SeamTest.
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Clean Code vs. Implementation Patterns
Posted by Vincent Partington in the late evening: January 26th, 2009
I've just read Robert C. Martin's Clean Code and Kent Beck's Implementation Patterns back to back. I actually picked up Clean Code first because my colleagues were raving about it. But then Robert Martin's book quotes from Kent Beck's book on the third page of the first chapter already, and disagrees with the quote, so I decided it'd be fun to read Implementation Patterns too. 
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JEE to PHPEE
Posted by Saket Vishal in the early morning: December 22nd, 2008
PHP is becoming better day by day. As I proceed in my path of catching up with recent developments in PHP, I see more and more of adaption in PHP from JEE(Java Enterprise Edition) world. To begin with, I stumbled upon the unit testing framework PHPUnit. The amount of familiarity with the J2EE world is simply amazing.
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Unit testing a Stripes ActionBean wired with Spring Beans
Posted by Jeroen van Wilgenburg around lunchtime: December 16th, 2008
Flex Testing Toolkit
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal in the late evening: November 19th, 2008
My recent assignment at Albumprinter gave an opportunity to play with flex testing tools available out there. Coming back to serious flex development after more than a year was a pleasant surprise. The state of flex when I last did something on it was for sure not “mature”. There weren’t many frameworks around.
But things have changed a great deal since then. Not only do we have frameworks implementing MVC (Cairngorm) but also some standard extensions (UM extensions) to those frameworks, we also have spring like IOC frameworks (Prana) for Flex.
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Beware of transitive dependencies… For they can be old and leaky
Posted by Jeroen van Erp around lunchtime: September 15th, 2008
In many JEE apps today, you almost cannot forgo XML. Whether it is in configuration, data structures or service interfaces, you will certainly use a number of XML files. In a recent project we had to deal with a number of external services which used an XML interface. Little did we know that we introduced a potential time-bomb in our application... (more...)
IBM Rational Software Developer Conference 2008 in New Delhi
Posted by Anurag Shrivastava terribly early in the morning: September 1st, 2008
You can’t complain about the venue of IBM Rational Software Developer Conference 2008 because it takes place at one of the oldest luxury landmark of New Delhi known as Hyatt Regency at Bhikaji Cama Place. Wizcraft, a company better known for organizing star studded Bollywood award ceremonies, add a glamour to this themed event around comic strip hero’s. Radio Mirchi and others air radio commercials to advertise the event among their young and upwardly mobile audience which includes thousands of software professionals and users of IBM products in NCR.
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