https://jlink.blogger.de/ Johannes Link's Travels through Software Devlopment Space en (c) Johannes Link 2008-03-27T11:48:04Z 2008-03-27T11:48:04Z http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://jlink.blogger.de/stories/1084296/ I eventually managed to move my weblog over to http://blog.johanneslink.net. The new feed is http://blog.johanneslink.net/feed/ UPDATE: The URL has changend once more, sorry. 2008-03-27T11:39:12Z john.link@gmx.net https://jlink.blogger.de/stories/1064918/ Have you ever had a Fit(Nesse) test suite of more than just a few pages? Have you ever tried to consistently change the names of test pages, fixtures, columns, commands or anything that is being used a few dozen or a few hundred times across the whole suite? Have you ever wanted to get rid of the 14 setup tables that were copied from your first test page into all others? Have you ever wished you could reorder columns, arguments or parameters in your fixtures? You get my point. Doing "refactoring"... 2008-03-05T09:25:31Z Testing john.link@gmx.net https://jlink.blogger.de/stories/980877/ My personal opinion on this is "only barely - if at all". If you can read German then Jens Coldewey's very good summary of the problems you run into if you try is just for you. Here is my adhoc translation of a section in which he characterizes his experience with refactoring large C++ legacy systems: To rework and refactor a whole system like this can take years. Languages that enforce such big rework should not be used anymore except in very special circumstances. Would you buy a new car the engine... 2007-11-29T13:10:17Z Software Architecture john.link@gmx.net https://jlink.blogger.de/stories/977302/ Switching regularly between .NET and Java definitely does not facilitate remembering the details of one platform or the other. For me, however, it made me see how similar both platforms are and consider C# to be a (slightly) improved version of Java. For the most part, I still think that´s true. Explicit properties, delegates and events make coding certain programming idioms somewhat smoother and more readable than using bean conventions and anonymous inner classes. That said, I still shy... 2007-11-25T11:43:23Z Programming Languages john.link@gmx.net https://jlink.blogger.de/stories/966798/ Apple, don't be a kill-joy! 2007-11-13T19:20:35Z john.link@gmx.net https://jlink.blogger.de/stories/933105/ It's time again to ditch some dear but no longer needed weight: A couple of month ago I developed ClasspathSuite, a little JUnit4 extension to run test suites which are distributed among several (Eclipse) projects and/or several jar files. At that time I was in need of such a tool and I have enhanced it slightly over the last few months. Now that JUnit 4.4 is available, some internals of ClasspathSuite do not work any longer, and I just don't find the time to delve sufficiently deep into JUnit 4.4... 2007-10-09T14:45:20Z Testing john.link@gmx.net https://jlink.blogger.de/stories/859567/ In case you have known me or this web log for a while you probably know that I am all into the evolutionary style of software development. In other words, I am a strong believer in the theory that software design - and software architecture as well - should be tackled step by step, from very easy to (maybe) a little bit more complex, from one requirement to the next. My experience so far has been that almost anything which had to be designed or "architected" could be - or could have been - done in... 2007-07-19T21:23:14Z Software Architecture john.link@gmx.net