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1
Testing Times
Having recently taken another look at my project's unit testing strategy I thought I'd share some of my thoughts on how I see unit testing as just another force on the system's design. As such it needs to be weighed in the balance with the other forces. ...
26-Sep-2008
14:09:00
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Who should own the non-functional tests?
This is a follow-up to a post entitled Performance tuning Java systems that I made last year, which talked about some performance testing that I was doing for a customer. Last week, I went back to the same customer to make some small tweaks to the test ...
07-Jul-2008
11:03:00
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What is Significant?
Recently I wrote a quick blog about taking metrics for optimisation. I suggested they should only be included if the improvement was significant, but how do you define significant? You may think that 'significant' is just a matter of opinion but it ...
15-Dec-2007
21:15:27
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Performance tuning Java systems
One of my current projects involves me performance testing a third party Java system. In essence, it's a distributed/n-tier Java EE web application and we're hitting it with a high simulated load thanks to Apache JMeter. One of the things we found is ...
05-Nov-2007
12:23:34