January 22nd, 2008
Grig has an interesting post today about enforcing checklists via nose, Agile Testing: Joel on checklists Now that is an interesting idea. I do lots of PCI compliance testing and documenting the tests and procedures is par for the course. Automating those procedures goes a long way in helping out in this regard. Dora, handles scheduling, running and reporting which makes life nice, but I’ve got a variety of scripts and it would be nice to unify them in overall architecture. Using nose could do just that.
Interesting things/thoughts happen when your programmers are sys-admins too. This idea of translating the framework we use for testing code to testing systems has a number of interesting dimensions to it. Just like Alton Brown, I insist that my tools multi-task too.
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January 22nd, 2008
There is a great article over on SnapLogic, SnapLogic Blog » Squishy design with Python: Designing in code
The gist of the article is that when developing APIs are never as complete as we want them when we are developing a new system and if you are using a static language you’ve got lots of ramifications to consider and code to rework when you have to expand an API. However, dynamic languages have a real advantage here and they go on to give a very real example and how they dealt with it.
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January 22nd, 2008
There is an interesting write up on plugin architecture – g :: A Simple Plugin Framework
A project that I’m working on is going to require a plugin framework for a number of things: Logic, Data Storage, Reporting and I’ve been keeping my eyes open for papers/articles on plugin frameworks. Do you know of any resources/articles?
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January 21st, 2008
ScribeFire has been installed again. After a tumultuous summer, fitful fall we are in to the Winter. Time to get back on the post wagon. There will be more to follow now.
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