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Proleptic apoplexy

Saturday, July 12, 2008

I spent a few hours this week trying to figure out why some date manipulation methods I was writing weren't working. In my test case, I had two instances of GregorianCalendar which I was comparing, an original and one that had been round-tripped through some conversion methods, via oracle.jbo.doman.Timestamp. Using the equals method, [...]

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Aggregated code coverage with Emma and Groovy

Saturday, July 5, 2008

This post describes a script I wrote to take XML Emma output and produce multi-package aggregated statistics. One of the drawbacks of Emma's HTML reporting is that it does not allow you to get aggregated coverage information across packages. For instance, if I have packages "com.foobar.sdk.interface" "com.foobar.sdk.impl", there's no automated way to get coverage [...]

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TestNG Migration

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The past couple days at work, I've been migrating all of our JUnit 3 tests to TestNG. The main motivation was the ability to easily create arbitrary collections of tests. When working on a single bug or feature, it's common to write a test that only exercises the code you're working on so [...]

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