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The importance of avoiding regression
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Posted on 30 Jun 2003
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Now i've always been test infected, in fact I believe since working on my BBC micro I've been eager to prove code works during every stage of the development. However it was thrust home to me today how important regression testing actually is.
I won't go into the details but suffice to say, make sure your user stories actually cover every major activity before going ahead with a change. To be slack on the user stories will bite you in the end as regression can lead to sleepless nights, so test early, and test often...
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Hordes of the Things
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Posted on 30 Jun 2003
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Just finished listening to BBC7 repeat of Hordes of the Things, what a fantastic audio play it was, lovely to hear Paul Eddington (Jim Hacker:Yes, Minister) as the hapless king, and I'm sure that was Steven Pacey (Tarrant:Blakes7) in the last episode. This was one of the first audio plays I ever heard, from that golden age back at the start of the '80s, when men were men, women were women, and small furry creatures from alpha centuri were real small furry creatures from alpha centuri.
I managed to dub off a good recording at last for the archives, Sky+ is a wonderful thing, if you havent already spotted it BBC7 is doing good stuff once or twice a week, and with the manual recording facility on Sky+ you can grab some superb comedies and dramas. (Channel 922 i think, and the schedules are at www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7
I wonder if anyone has a transcription of the script for this play, it's got some real good quotes...
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Loving thinlets
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Posted on 30 Jun 2003
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I love thinlets, love them. I know there limitations, which is the best place to be, set the right expectation from your third party API, and you'll be happy. Thinlet's not only let me build a gui for my blogging editorial system, but is also one of the most logical ways to do a prototype GUI.
I've managed to knock up a working GUI, from scratch, in half an hour, ok so no back end to it, but it is wonderful for going back to the eventual user and getting early feedback on the direction a project should take, without eating into valuable hours on the train.
Now, I have to work out which the best place to submit my thinlet changes are, as thinlets do seem to have three forums, and they ignored my posting to the main website, perhaps a sourceforge development forum posting will do the trick, hmm..
Limitations, I guess the main thing is not being able to use regular swing controls inside of a thinlet JPanel, not a big issue for most, I guess, but it does sort of mandate the eventual layout I give to a GUI. Unless someone can correct me. Just means that top half of my screen will be a thinlet controlled panel, and the bottom half a JEditorPane, with funky looking search results.
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