This post on why academics should work to integrate their research ideas with open source software in order to actually push forward on the OSS side (and presumably vice versa) is really good. I think such things could be applied in software testing, too, where there's a gulf between how …
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So I'm pretty bullish on testing for maintenance reasons. It was nice to see how well it worked out for me when a user recently reported a problem with Cartwheel.
This is what happened: third-party package (LAGAN) that the user was running through the Web interface depended on certain command-line …
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Pavel Vinogradov <fastnix> has been keeping me updated on an issue he discovered while testing TCMalloc with Python as a Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) task, task 105.
Briefly, Pavel discovered a situation in which replacing the Python memory allocator with TCMalloc resulted in really bad performance. The latest is …
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Disney Animation has an opening for a summer intern to work on a testing project under the supervision of Paul Hildebrandt and Dr. C. Titus Brown. The ideal candidate will have experience with a dynamic language supporting introspection (Python preferred …
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The simple application I demoed at PyCon '08 during my talk on the OLPC and testing is now available: I call it "peekaboo".
peekaboo is a way to watch your code being executed in another process using sys.settrace, figleaf, and XML-RPC.
The two screencasts below should explain it.
The …
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At PyCon '08, I gave a talk on testing and the OLPC project where I referred to the "Testing Death Spiral". My accompanying slide, which aimed to be simple rather than comprehensive, had this scenario:
Write a bunch of code & manually test it.
(Good so far.)
Start adding features over …
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Here are some of the materials from my PyCon activities:
The tutorial source code (which is really just a cut down version of my PyCon '07 talk's source code; see the README and my blog post from back then).
(Sorry about …
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