Closing Braces

Don’t you just hate tests that can’t be automated?

closingbraces — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:28:41 +0000

I'm helping someone with some testing that mainly requires visual checking of web pages, and there doesn't seem to be any reasonable way to automate this. Do people really have to do this manually, or am I missing a trick?

FindBugs finds bugs (again)

closingbraces — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:54:39 +0000

FindBugs is terrific. I've been using it for several years now, and each release finds more mistakes in my code that were previously slipping through unnoticed. Updating to 1.3.4 has found a really silly little mistake, almost by accident.

JspC: Switching from Tomcat to Glassfish

closingbraces — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:39:09 +0000

For validating JSPs as part of my build script, I've just switched from using Tomcat's JspC compiler to that of Glassfish V2, and it seems worth documenting the changes involved and some of the differences.

Glassfish v2 and Kaspersky 7

closingbraces — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:59:32 +0000

Attempting to start Glassfish V2 on MS Windows can fail if Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7 is running. Here's a possible work-around.

Private beta of ObMimic for out-of-container servlet testing

closingbraces — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:57:10 +0000

The "ObMimic" library for out-of-container servlet testing is now being made available to a small number of users as a private "beta" release, in advance of a public beta in the next month or two. If you find servlet code harder to test than plain Java, ObMimic might be just what you're looking for. We're ready for a few more people to start trying it out, so if you're interested just let me know.