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Integrate TestLink with YouTrack

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:58:00 +0000

The main idea of this post is to describe on how to integrate YouTrack Issue Tracking System by Jetbrains (www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/) with TestLink v1.9 (http://www.teamst.org/) a popular Test Case Management Tool.

By the time of writing this article, the official wiki of YouTrack : http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/YTHB/Integration+with+TestLink was last updated on Mar 30, 2011. The data it contained was invalid for TestLink v1.9.

So here are the steps,

Navigate to Home page of Test Link. (make sure you have the admin rights)
Click on Issue Tracker Management
Then Click on Create
Type a name you desire.
Select 'Youtrack' for the Type
In the Configuration : include the following lines,
<issuetracker>
<username>USER NAME</username>
<password>PASSWORD</password>
<uribase>MAIN YOUTRACK LINK</uribase>
</issuetracker>
For the uribase, an example would be : http://www.youtrack.com:8088
Please make sure Not to include a '/' at last.
Click Save
Now go to Test Project Management and select your Project
In Issue Tracker Integration select the newly created Issue Tracker and make sure to tick on Active.
Now click on Test Execution and navigate to a Test Case that was already executed.
You will now see a new column as BUG management.
Click the BUG icon and Link a YouTrack item or Access to YouTrack directly and create a new issue.
After linking, you will see a new column Relevant bugs and you will also see the YouTrack ID as well as the State of that Item.
We are done !

Add-on to view Non Unicode Sinhala Websites

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:58:00 +0000

Keheliya Gallaba has created a nice addon which we be can use to view Non Unicode Text in their Unicode equivalents.

Currently this addon supports,

Download

Firefox : http://code.google.com/p/siyabasscript/downloads/list
Chrome : http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/63613

Screencast : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuImKCvvHXY

google-api-translate-javame version 2.0 is NOW available

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:33:00 +0000

Google-api-translate-javame API version 2.0 is NOW available.

It now supports 'Auto-Detect Language' feature and has translation support for more than 40 languages.

Link : http://code.google.com/p/google-api-translate-javame/

Google Transliterate in SINHALA

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:15:00 +0000

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Google Transliterate (http://www.google.com/transliterate/) now supports Sinhala Language.

I tried entering "subha aluth awuruddak wewa" and below is the output.

By checking this service I found out that it does more work than Traditional Phonetic Transliteration.

It has some prediction (AI) capabilities so that in most times it will show the intended word we needed.
I tried the same input with some other similar services and the output was not accurate like in Google Transliterate.

Similar services

PInvoke (Platform Invoke) in C#

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:24:00 +0000

Recently I had a requirement of calling some functions in a C++ DLL file which i created, via C#. I achieved it by using PInvoke.

So what is PInvoke ?

Platform Invocation Services (PInvoke) allows managed code (code which runs in Microsoft CLR) to call unmanaged functions (code compiled directly to Machine Language) that are implemented in a DLL.

The advantage of using PInvoke in my case is that, C++ DLLs compiled to machine Language runs much faster than compiled to CLR.

How to use PInvoke – Basics

Let's assume you have a function int getValue(char c) { ... } in a C++ App. First you have to change and wrap like below.

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern
"C" {
#endif

__declspec(dllexport) int getValue(char c)
{
        //some code
        return 0;
}


#ifdef __cplusplus
};
#endif

Now recompile the program as a DLL and we are ready to call this function from C#.

So in your C# Application, first include

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

Then add below line in the class file.

[DllImport("YourDllName.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
public static extern int getValue(char c);

After that you can call that function just like calling any C# function.
Eg: int i = getValue('a');

How to get a C++ struct from C#

Let's assume that you have a C++ function which returns a structure. And you need to get the returned C++ structure from the C# code. Here is how you should do it.

In the C++ code, the structure should look like this.

#pragma
pack(push, 8)
struct Location {
    int x;
    int y;
};
#pragma
pack(pop)

And assume that the C++ function (which returns the structure) looks like below,

__declspec(dllexport) Location getLocation(int a)
    {
        Location loc;
        loc.x = 10;
        loc.y = 20;
        return loc;
    }

So in the C# code, it should look like,

[DllImport("YourDllName.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Struct)]
public static extern MyLocation startProcessing(int a);

And our own C# struct Type - MyLocation, to which we bind the returned data, should look like below.

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct MyLocation
{
public int x;
public int y;
}

Then you can call the C++ methid in C# like,

MyLocation loc = startProcessing(10);

Reference

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235282.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973872.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa712982.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446536.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288468%28VS.71%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164123.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_Invocation_Services

If you have any issues, please add a comment so that I can help you as I can !

After a long time

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:07:00 +0000

Hello Dear friends,

I was not able to update my blog for the past 10 months.

But stay tuned because there will be frequent blog posts from now on ...

My Final Year Project

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:37:00 +0000

These days i'm working on my final year project to complete my Software Engineering degree @ APIIT.

The topic of my FYP is "A Universal Translator for Mobile Phones". As soon as you here about the topic you may remember Start Wars because in those films there were inter-galactic translators to communicate with each aliens.

Ok, if i get back to my FYP, it will work as Speech -> Speech translator. It will be helpfull when you are in abroad and you can't speak or understand the local language.

Let's assume that you are in France and you only know how to speak/understand English but you need to talk with a French guy. So all you have to do is,

Install my application in a mobile phone.
Talk to the phone in 'English'.
Then the phone will recognize what you spoke by using it's Speech Recognition Engine.
So the sentence you spoke will be in text format.
Then the phone will translate that sentence into 'French'.
After that the translated text will be spoken by the phone in 'French' by using it's Text-to-Speech engine, so that the other guy can understand.
This can be done vise-versa too so that you can understand French in English.

I think now you have a slight idea that it functions like,

Speech Recognition ==> Language Translation ==> Text to Speech.

There are many challenges I have to face in developing this,

I'm building the application to work in an average mobile phone which is still not done yet. All the available solutions are for PDA's which runs Windows Mobile OS and has higher hardware specifications.

Homophone Detection - A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same but differs in meaning (Eg. to,too,two) The speech recognition engine is not able to detect those errors. Eg. It may recognition "I need to go home" as "I need two go home" which is incorrect. So I came up with a 'Homophone Detection and Correction' algorithm which is AI based and use 'part of speech' tagging.

Sentence recognition - Current speech recognition API's are only capable of recognizing a single word (a command). So i have to enhance the speech recognition to recognize sentences.

Pronunciation modeling - A person can understand a sentence only if it is pronounced correctly. But still there are gaps in pronouncing (Text to Speech) in mobile computing. So I have to come up with a better and user understandable pronunciation mechanism.

Currently I have finished the research part and now in the design phase. Hope I'll complete it successfully.

Google Translate API for JavaME

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:50:00 +0000

I have created a JavaME (J2ME) client API to use Google Translate
in a mobile phone.

This project provides a simple API to use Google Translate in JavaME (J2ME) platform.
It uses the Google AJAX Language API to do the translation via a HTTP connection.

link: http://code.google.com/p/google-api-translate-javame/

The project is open source and under GPL v2 license.

Features: 40 supported languages , unicode support
Requirements: CLDC-1.1 MIDP-1.0

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Google Maps updated for Sri Lanka

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:28:00 +0000

I was blaming Google maps alot for not mapping the roads correctly in Sri Lanka. Only 'A' category roads was mapped previously and that mapping was horrible. A very interesting part was that A3 road was running over our home.

But now google seems to start mapping Sri Lanka correctly. Now All the 'A' and 'B' roads are mapped correctly at almost 100% accuracy. Rails tracks are also mapped correctly.

The important part is the Google even has mapped and named the minor roads in Colombo. Almost all the roads are mapped it seems, even roads length around 100m (the roads in Galle Road to sea side).

Most popular landmarks like schools, hospitals, parks, shopping malls, bus stands, company buildings and etc are also marked correctly in Colombo and in some parts of the country.

The only lacking part is that getting directions from Google Maps, which is still not available. Hope google will add it too. Then it'll be a great news for all the GPS enabled mobile phone users (including me) to get directions. And it will be a bad news for Dialog's SatNav Digital Navigator which costs around Rs. 110, 000/- (excluding taxes).

Great work Goolge......

JavaFX

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:59:00 +0000

JavaFX launched officially today. Visit www.javafx.com

JavaFX is an expressive rich client platform for creating and delivering rich Internet experiences across all the screens of your life.

JavaFX offers users unparalleled freedom and flexibility to create rich Internet applications and content quickly and easily across multiple screens, including mobile phones, desktops, televisions, and other consumer devices. JavaFX combines the best capabilities of the Java platform with comprehensive, immersive media functionality into an intuitive and comprehensive, one-stop development environment.

JavaFX release for mobile is coming up on 2009 February.

Cool links on JavaFX:

The Big Picture...

Passed SCMAD 1.0

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:00 +0000

I passed Sun SCMAD 1.0 exam (CX-310-110) today with good marks..

For this I would like to thank my teacher
Mr. Ransika De Silva from IJTS for his utmost
guidance through the whole subject area and
specially practically coding mobile applications
in the class room.

Preparation: I studied only 3 full days for
the exam as I didn't have much time. First 2 days
were studying(cramming) all the 11 specifications and going
through Sathya Srinivasan's SCMAD short notes.
3rd days I did all the mock exams in Whizlabs Simulator.

Exam: Exam was bit hard than in the Whizlabs and
most of the questions were really logical and tricky. But
by going through around 3 times per question, it was
easier to understand and answer.

Result: I passed.

Some helpful links on SCMAD

Google Chrome - New Web Browser

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:20:00 +0000

Latest web browser by Google named "Chrome" released today. It's an Open Source project and currently in Beta version.

Features of Chrome..

Web apps can be launched in their own browser window without address bar and toolbar.
The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8.
Google Chrome will use special tabs - similer to firefox but have a separate address bar for each tab.
Address bar has auto-completion features.
Default homepage has a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera or Firefox-FastDial.
To fight malware and phishing attempts, Chrome is constantly downloading lists of harmful sites.

Screenshot -Browsing a Webpage

Screenshot - Speed Dial

Additional Reading...

Google: Lively

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:41:00 +0000

What if you want to express yourself in a more funny way, with 3D graphics and real-time avatar interactions?

Google: Lively is the new virtual world created by the world's largest search engine. It's like Second Life by Linden Research, Inc.

Google Lively is promoted as a "3D chat experience" using avatars because it mainly allows users to chat, using a 3D personalized avatar in a room that they created. It also supports for playing YouTube videos in virtual TVs and showing photos in virtual picture frames inside our rooms.

There is a nice video on Lively in youtube.
To learn more about Lively, please visit www.lively.com.

See you soon @ my Lively room....

Reference:

PPSP Presentations

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:21:00 +0000

Info Coming Soon........

Java SE 7 - Coming on mid 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:24:00 +0000

In JavaOne 2008, Danny Coward the Chief Architect (Client Software) demonstrated new developments in Java SE 7 release.

JDK 7 Development Page: https://jdk7.dev.java.net

Some highlighted features.....

+New default UI named Nimbus (It will be available from JDK 6 update 10)..
https://nimbus.dev.java.net/spec/index.html
https://nimbus.dev.java.net

+Performance Increase - Upto 280% Increase comparing to Java SE 5

+More Language support on JVM

+New Java Plugin Architecture for Applets

More features from http://tech.puredanger.com/java7

Modularity

Libraries

Swing

JMX

Tools

JSR 260 Javadoc Technology Update

Types and Generics

Reference...

http://blogs.sun.com/dannycoward/resource/PS_TS-6271_SETrackTalk_Final.pdf
http://puredanger.com/techfiles/Java7WhatsNext.ppt

My Netbeans Review Highlighted on Sun - Student Reviews Page

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:28:00 +0000

The previous review on Netbeans 6.1 RC1 was highlighted in the main sun.com studen reviews page.
Its a great achievement for me because ultimately its the main sun site and my photo is on it.
:D :D :D

Link : http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/reviews/studentzone/index.jsp

Below is a screen capture of it (incase if its removed from the site)

PS: Thanks alot sun for highlighting my work!

NetBeans IDE 6.1 Release Candidate 1 Now Availabl

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:04:00 +0000

NetBeans.org has announced the availability of the NetBeans IDE 6.1 Release Candidate. Learn more about the 6.1 release or Download it now. The final NetBeans IDE 6.1 release is scheduled for end of April.

So what’s new in 6.1?

Spring Framework support, new MySQL support in NetBeans Database Explorer, huge performance enhancements (its has around 40% faster startup), JSF CRUD generator, enhanced JavaBeans support, new JavaScript features, RESTful Web Service Support, enhanced Ruby/JRuby support and much more. For more info.

My views

First the 40% faster startup is really great because in 6.0 it took a lot of time to startup in my notebook. It was a major issue in NetBeans 6.0 but now it’s fixed thanks to the great NetBeans developers. The memory consumption is also a bit low. That’s also a performance hit.

It also has bundled Spring Framework 2.5 library which makes my work easier. JSF CRUD Generator is also another good addition to the new version.

Code completion has also improved a lot in the newer version.

Tutorials on NetBeans 6.1

At last I have to say is that it’s the best Java IDE I’ve ever used and it rocks now.

So my friends don’t wait, Download and try it now.

SDM Prsentation

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:31:00 +0000

After 3 months of hard work we had the presentations for SDM(Software Development Methods). We built a standalone and a mobile application for a cricket club to manage its financial and HR aspects.

Photos of the Presentation

RMS in Sri Lanka

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:30:00 +0000

It’s one of the biggest free software event that has been held in Sri Lanka. Richard M. Stallman aka RMS - The founder of the FSF (free software foundation), GNU project & the GPL license and Emacs is now in Sri Lanka.

Today we had a great speech on "Free Software in Ethics and in Practice" by him in SLIIT Auditorium, Malabe. Visiting him is an unforgettable experience in my life.

In that event i also got a chance to have a look at on the XO Laptop which is a light weight laptop and run LINUX on it.

Pictures of the event

GoogleTalk Translation

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:40:00 +0000

Google now allow you to translate from and to dozen of languages using any XMPP client (including GTalk of course).

Add [src language]2[dest language]@bot.talk.google.com

to your GTalk contacts and bingo — you’ve got your personal machine interpreter.
For example en2zh@bot.talk.google.com will translate from English to Chinese.

The quality of translation looks pretty good in simple tests (I tried English to Italy).

The following language pairs are supported:
ar2en, bg2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fi2en, fr2de, fr2en, hi2en, hr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, uk2en, ur2en, zh2en.

Nice work Google.......

APIIT - Software Freedom Day 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:10:00 +0000

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide event that is celebrated annually (http://softwarefreedomday.org) on the third Saturday of each September. This year, it will be celebrated on the 15th of September. The goal of this celebration is "To educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!"
Therefore, as a part of the SFD celebration by the Sri Lankan FOSS community (http://sfd.foss.lk) we at APIIT plan to hold a series of talks on the 14th of September 2007 as a part of the islandwide SFD events. The talks will be presented by members of the Sri Lankan FOSS community and will describe the value and potential of the use and development of FOSS.

APIIT SFD Photos
APIIT SFD (DayBefore) Photos
www.softwarefreedomday.org

Software Development Project (SDP)

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:45:00 +0000

We completed successfully the SDP project after about 2 months of hard work and had our Presentations for it today.
Our project was to develop a Medical Office Management System for a Hospital. we chose Arogya Nursing Home - Gampaha to implement our system.

Used Programming Language

JAVA

Software Used

Java 1.6 with Net Beans 5.51
iReports 2.0 with Jasper Reports
My SQL 5.0

-Presentation Photos-

-Program Screenshots-

FOSS-ed for Windows...

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:12:00 +0000

I was also among the participants for the "FOSS-ed for Windows" seminar which was held from 26th to 28th. It was so much interesting and I learnt so much about *FOSS world and FOSS for Windows..

The keynote by Brian Behlendorf(A co-founder of Apache Web Server) about FOSS was much informative. The other key speakers @ the seminar were Suchetha Wijenayake, Buddhika Siddhisena, Mifan Careem and Anuradha Ratnaweera. They all did their best in there sessions..

I would be much pleased to thank the organizing committee for their immense dedication for organizing this even in a much successful way..

*FOSS = Free Open Source Software

Our New bording house...

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:04:00 +0000

Me and Madusha Aiya rented a house in Baththaramulla as it is easy to go to APIIT from here. This place is only about 25min. from APIIT.

Passed the 'SCJP' exam.....

noreply@blogger.com (Jinath Sanjitha) — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:13:00 +0000

Finally after 8 months of hardwork and dedication, I got through from the SCJP exam with good results.

SCJP = Sun Certified JAVA Programmer.

This is a internationally recognized certification which is awarded by Sun MicroSystems, Inc, USA (the JAVA creators).

I studyed @ the Institute of Java Technological Studies(IJTS) in Thummulla under the guidance of Sir Rajitha.

SCJP certification ensures that I have the necessary skills to efficiently meet the challenges of programming in JAVA.
So now I think I had climbed some steps towards my ambition which is to be a highly talented Software Engineer.