Category Archives: Testing

Bickering about unit testing

Posted on 25. September 2009 by kay

Doubts on the effectiveness of unit testing Unit testing has entered the programming mainstream with XUnit packages and derivations of them. They are available for all mainstream programming languages. It is not normal today shipping an OSS project without any … Continue reading →

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Choosers and ChooserMixins in C++ and Python

Posted on 12. September 2009 by kay

Chooser Objects From time to time I’m amazed to find a simple algorithm which seemed to be a low hanging fruit which was just overlooked. In this particular case it is about generating and utilizing test data in a both … Continue reading →

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Python vs TTCN-3

Posted on 26. April 2009 by kay

Some time ago computing scientists Bernard Stepien and Liam Peyton from the University of Ottawa compared Python with TTCN-3. TTCN-3 means Testing and Test Control Notation and it is domain specific language specifically designed for writing tests in the domain … Continue reading →

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