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Archive for June, 2008

Performance: Part I Develop a Monitoring Scheme

  • June 22nd, 2008
  • Posted in Software Architecture

Two years ago Aaron Patzer was frustrated with Quicken and Money, because setting up the service alone took over an hour. His painful experience led him to ditch both these products, and create his own product Mint.com, in hopes of delivering a faster and more useful personal financial service. Unfortunately, not everyone is a programmer, [ READ MORE ]

Trade-offs in Unit Testing – Part III Stub Objects

  • June 8th, 2008
  • Posted in Software Testing

I understand that no one likes to write test cases. For most developers its tied with debugging as their least favorite activity, because they just want to focus on algorithms, and writing code; thats the fun stuff. But I don’t think developers understand the importance of writing test cases. The more test cases you write [ READ MORE ]

Part II – Trade-off to using Mock Objects

  • June 8th, 2008
  • Posted in Software Testing

I spent a week testing the security framework at Mint.  I chose Mock objects as the methodology for testing because I wanted to test that when a user logs in a certain set of methods is called (i.e. there was clearly an expected behavior I was aiming to test).  Being very familiar with the architecture [ READ MORE ]

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