Skip navigation.


welcome to testingReflections.com... your one-stop for software testing blogs... an online knowledge-base for functional testing, performance testing, system testing, unit testing, test-driven development, well, all things vaguely connected to 'Software Testing'... A hub for Software Testing knowledge and information... A mind-share blog for the Software Development and Testing community... you get the picture! Whether you are a developer or software tester, you'll find valuable insights into software testing, test driven development and other related subjects. more about testingReflections...


RiverGlide - flow without friction: agile coaching; agile training; software development. CAST Conference 2010 - Grand Rapids, MI Aug 2-4, 2010. Interactive learning and discussion focused on

RiverGlide proudly supports CAST2010

Two “Scoops” of “Bugs”

I have often said something like “We found a hundred bugs!” Lots of people have heard me say it. Statements like that are very valuable to me. But we should ask some vital questions about them.Consider Raisin Bran cereal. If you lived in America and weren’t in solitary confinement during the 80’s an 90’s you [...]

Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Lazy Classes Part II

Jason Gorman quickly illustrates how to apply the Collapse Heirarchy refactoring to eliminate a lazy subclass

» read more

Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Lazy Classes (Part I)

Lazy classes add little value for the maintanance burden they incur. In this example, Jason Gorman illustrates how to safely inline a lazy class into its containing class.

Rackspace Cloud - Outbound Bandwidth Caps, Network Too Slow

Have you seen the network/bandwidth caps that Rackspace places on their cloud servers?

From the Rackspace Cloud Server FAQ:

"Your Cloud Server has a bandwidth cap that is applied in relation to the size of the server. Please note that the bandwidth caps are placed on outbound bandwidth only. Inbound bandwidth is not capped."

WebInject - New Discussion Group Launched

I just started a new discussion group for WebInject:

http://groups.google.com/group/webinject

The old forums (http://www.webinject.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.cgi) have been broken for several years. I will leave them up in read-only mode, but some threads are broken and unviewable.

youDevise series on my new blog

I've started a new series on my blog... it's a weekly diary of what it's like to work with youDevise as a developer. I thought it might prove interesting to those considering working there in the future... since they are frantically hiring.

You can read the diary on my new blog.

Wondering why I have a new blog?

Membase Stats Report (Python)

[Membase is a high-performance, distributed key-value database (NoSQL)]

To check operational stats of your Membase server/cluster, you can use the telnet interface (port 11211) and issue the stats command to any individual node:

$ telnet 192.168.12.11 11211
stats

The output is unsorted and a little difficult to read at quick glance.

Register For Software Craftsmanship 2010

Finally! You took your time, Jason!



Yes, Software Craftsmanship 2010 is open for business. You can register with your credit/debit card online for the jolly reasonable price of 85 quid. And, even better, all the profits from registration are going directly to help Bletchley Park.