The work that Diasparsoft did for us was outstanding. We are now using the software on a daily basis and their work could well have a dramatic impact on the Reds' organization in the near future. —Cincinnati Reds Baseball Club.
Mike Clark's latest book, Pragmatic Project Automation is an excellent survey of project automation techniques. Using tools we know and love, he shows us how to automate more than just our tests: he includes sections on building, testing, deploying and monitoring our software. Especially interesting are the presentations of Groovy as an alternative to Ant buildfiles and techniques for monitoring applications while they run. Mike shows us just some of what we can automate on a project, and if we did that much, we'd be rather ahead of the game. I am putting this in my bag for my next project, and we will use the techniques the moment the need for automation becomes apparent. I suspect that will happen quickly. An excellent, quick read. Informative, pragmatic, and a source of other good ideas.
jbrains on 08.24.04 @ 07:16 PM ET [link]It surprised me, but there it is: the university in Linz, Austria is already using JUnit Recipes in one of its courses on software testing. The course is Testing Software Systems conducted by Dr. Christoph Steindl from IBM at Linz, a lead in application development. From their web site, and ably translated by Robert Wenner:
In between the lectures there will be time to practice the tools and practices presented. On the last day of the course, the participants will form teams and give 15 minutes talks on recipes for unit testing. (Literature on that will be handed out during the lessons and will be 50 to 100 pages for each team, these pages will be from the easy to read book "JUnit Recipes" by J.B. Rainsberger.)jbrains on 08.19.04 @ 02:22 PM ET [link]
Sure enough, just a couple of days after amazon.com reported that JUnit Recipes ships in 24 hours, amazon.ca has followed suit. My fellow Canadians can order the book in Canadian dollars and see it in two or three days, thanks to efficient Canada Post!
