Monthly Archives: July 2008
JMUnit: simple and good enough
I ended up using JMUnit for my mobile java project. The Sony Ericsson jUnit tool is great when you have to run the tests from a PC on a real device or from a “real” jUnit application. It’s a more advanced tool, but for my needs at the moment, it’s a bit overkill. So I [...]
Unit testing java mobile
I used to work for Sony Ericsson and my first job for the company was developing the J2ME SDK. The last thing I did as a developer was initiating the Mobile jUnit development (another guy finished it, though, and he should get the credit for it becoming a great tool.) This was a couple of [...]
Using iMacros for testing
I’ll try using the iMacros Firefox plugin for testing a web service I’m developing. Will get back on how good it works. Speaking of Firefox plugins, Firebug is a must have if you’re doing web development. Updated: a quick test and comparison to Selenium makes the latter the winner for testing.
Subversion and dav using https: Method PROPFIND is not defined
The following error message can occur when trying to use subversion on an apache2 server over https and dav: 501 Method PROPFIND is not defined in RFC 2068 and is not supported by the Servlet API. The error message is quite misleading. It can be caused by a simple misspelling of the server. In my [...]
The beta is dead, long live the beta
Beta is not what it used to be. It used to mean “buggy and unusable”, meant to be used in a transition phase from development to finished product. Now it means “usable, but still under development” or “we’re still adding new features” – or maybe just “free”. That’s slightly different. Well, it’s actually very different. [...]
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