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Java Rant Episode 2 - January 29, 2008
Java Rant Episode 2 – January 29, 2008
Show Notes…
Welcome back to the Java Rant podcast
Code Testing
Functional testing
Integration testing
Unit testing
Mock Objects
JUnit talk
Types of Unit Testing Methodologies
White box tests
Black box tests
Test driven development
Test coverage tools & the false sense of security
Project Pea & Matt Harrah
Three challenges
Beginners – static members:
Write a […]
Lies or Statistics?
I have been hearing some buzz in different news sites about how slow Java is. There have also been a few people that I have run into in the past month that have been asking about it. Where is this coming from? I thought we put the “Java is so stinkin’ slow” […]
Does your code still work? Are you sure?
I have been talking with quite a few people lately asking them what strategies they use for testing their applications. I was a bit surprised to find that most of them only do a little bit of functional testing by making sure that what they just wrote actually works. They don’t do testing […]
Java Rant Episode 1 - January 10th 2008
Welcome to the launch of the Java Rant podcast
Why am I doing this podcast?
Quick talk about Google Web Toolkit
Three challenges
Beginners:
The answer should look like this
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Elephants with wings: Should Java get closures?
In an interview with the Java Posse guys, Martin Odersky had a great answer to the question, “Should Java get closures?” Paraphrased, his answer was that it is like giving an elephant wings, it sounds like a great idea but what is the purpose. After I finished laughing and got back on the […]
Half Life of Skills: Staying on the Power Curve
Every once in a while I stop to take a look at where technology has come from and where it is going. This time my musings took me back to the late 90’s and what it was like to hard wire all my HTML into Servlets, WOW what a great idea that was! […]