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Developer Testing: Alberto Savoia

How much test coverage do you need? - The Testivus Answer

Referring to "The Way of Testivus" entry: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=203994 Morgan Conrad asked: "What is Testivus' wisdom concerning the proper percentage of test coverage?" Here you go Morgan: Testivus On Test Coverage

Posted: May. 4, 2007 02:23 PM

The Way of Testivus

The Way of Testivus Less unit testing dogma. More unit testing karma. Translated by Alberto Savoia Translators Introduction In May 2006, an ill-prepared international expedition to the Himalayas lost its way. After two weeks of wondering around,

Posted: May. 2, 2007 01:07 PM

Testing Genes, Test Infection, and the Future of Developer Testing

Some developers are easily test-infected - they take to unit testing like a duck to water. Others need some time and encouragement, but eventually "get it". A third group appears to have immunity to test infection. I invent a test-gene model to categ

Posted: Jan. 26, 2007 12:59 PM

InfoWorld's Jon Udell Interviewed Alberto Savoia

On Thursday May 26 Jon Udell interviewed Alberto Savoia. Alberto had just been selected by InfoWorld as one of the 25 Top CTO's in the US in 2005. Jon asks Alberto about his vision for Agitator and Alberto demos Agitator extensively. You can see the

Posted: May. 26, 2005 03:00 PM

The Developer Testing Paradox

Most software development organizations have compelling reasons to improve their quality, reduce their costs, and accelerate their schedules. Time after time, and year after year, the majority of software projects are of lower quality than desired, c

Posted: Jan. 27, 2005 08:46 PM

eXtreme Feedback for Software Development

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom ... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.” — William Blake One of the main themes of eXtreme Programming (XP) is that if an activity is

Posted: Apr. 1, 2004 10:48 AM

Eating Our Own Dog Food — Using Agitator™ on Itself

In start-up companies, especially in the area of software, the expression "eat your own dog food" means that you should use in-house the products or service that you are planning to sell to other people. At Agitar we take eating our own dog food very

Posted: Mar. 15, 2004 05:47 PM

Selecting Developer Testing Metrics

The first step in deciding what metrics to use is to specify clearly what results we want to achieve and what behaviors we want to encourage. In the context of developer testing, the results and behaviors that most organizations should target are the

Posted: Feb. 3, 2004 12:33 AM

Managed Developer Testing

This Developer Testing Note introduces the concept of Managed Developer Testing, a set of management practices supported by automated tools which I believe are essential to make a developer testing effort successful.

Posted: Dec. 28, 2003 12:17 AM

Obama May Win by a Landslide: Thomas M. DeFrank

Also in the book, DeFrank writes about Ford's opinion of Bill Clinton's addiction to women. Ford say

Bringing Business Value - Integrating Web 2.0 Tools in the Enterprise

Web 2.0 tools are doing a wonderful job of providing consumers with cool and productive new ways of

Adobe's Kevin Lynch and Microsoft's Scott Guthrie to Keynote AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Two of the biggest launches in Rich Internet Application history took place in 2007/2008 when Adobe

The RIA Era: Convergence of Web, Mobile and Desktop Applications is the Next Phase

'While the last decade was focused on the Web, the next phase in the evolution of our industry will

InteleCom Launches Web 2.0 Viral Communication Tools Through Its Social Network

InteleCom announced that its new Web 2.0 Social Network toksee successfully launched 3 new viral com

SL Corporation Leverages Web 2.0

SL Corporation announced the availability of RTView version 5.0. This latest release allows users to

myStaffingPro Applicant Tracking System Increases Web 2.0 Functionality

myStaffingPro has added new Web 2.0 functionality into their clients' career search screens. The fre

Web 3.0 and the Age of Intelligence

Often called the Semantic or Pervasive Web, Web 3.0 brings a level of artificial intelligence to tra

Who Says Web 2.0 is Hard? Modernize Your Applications without Needing a PhD in AJAX

Web applications continue to evolve to support a far richer user experience than in the early days o

SQL Injection Attacks: The Future of Mass Hacking Campaigns

SQL injection attacks are evolving as one of the primary modes of transportation for malicious scrip

Move Over Dot.Com

Brace yourself for a new era of creative web addresses. ICANN, the non-profit Internet Corporation f

Web 2.0 Journal Special: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Project Management

Nowadays we can observe changes going on in management and especially project management in organiza

Progress Software Announces Mindreef and IONA Acquisitions at SOA World Conference

Progress Software has acquired Mindreef, a provider of SOA service validation and testing tools. Min

SOA: Preparing for Mashups

It's important to remember that there is a huge resource being created on the Web these days in term

AccuRev Leverages Web 2.0 Technology to Extend Process Management Reach Across the Organization

AccuRev announced a new AJAX-based Web Interface and a native integration with Microsoft Windows Exp

Mobile Web 2.0

The number of subscribers using mobile Internet services will rise from 577 million currently, to to

Project Insight Project Management Software Releases Project Scorecard

Project Insight has released Project Scorecard, a project scoring system that enables companies to m

Curl Nitro Demo Application Visualizes Facebook Social Graphs

Curl has made available the newest example of a Curl Nitro 'fit client' application. Designed by Man

Jaspersoft v3 Marks Major Milestone for Commercial Open Source Business Intelligence

Jaspersoft announced the availability of its new Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite v3 Professio

The Monetization of Mobile Multimedia

The demand for and widespread usage of popular video sharing sites, communities of interest, social