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Screencast on using Hudson Continuous Integration

The Integrate Button website (from Paul Duvall’s book on Continuous Integration) recently published a screencast on using the Hudson Continuous Integration server – along with Subversion, Ant, HSQL and other tools. Click the image below to get started. The screencast demonstrates the following steps: Checkout source files from the Subversion repository – locally Run the Read more…

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Fuzz testing

“Fuzzing” is a concept that has been in use for many years, mostly with in-house testing departments, and its effectiveness can have a profound effect on your code quality. In an IBM DeveloperWorks article, Elliotte Harold presents this testing technique for hardening applications against unexpected input – and shows what happens when he deliberately injects Read more…

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Selenium Screencast — using Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control and Ant

Selenium provides cross-browser functional, web-based testing using table-driven tests. What’s more is that you can configure Selenium to run these tests with every source code change or on a periodic basis. This flash demo walks you through the steps of using the Selenium IDE with Selenium Remote Control and Ant so that you can incorporate Read more…

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Businesses Primed for the Mashup Mosh Pit

Web 2.0 components Ajax and mashups were among the key players of dozens assessed in Gartner’s annual report identifying emerging technologies and their impact on businesses over the next decade. According to the report, mashups are nearing the hype cycle peak and “provides incremental improvements to established processes that will result in increased revenue or Read more…