Posts under ‘Testing’

After all these years dealing with servers, switches, routers and virtualisation technologies we think it´s time to move our lab into the next phase, the Cloud, specifically the Amazon EC2 Cloud.
We are actively working in the Cloud now for different projects, as you´ve seen in previous blog posts. We believe and feel this step is [...]

Following on from my post the other day, I’m very happy to announce that we have released the source code for our Maven utPLSQL plugin under an Apache 2.0 license.
The code (and downloads for the latest version of the plugin) is published on the Google Code website and is available from the following URL:

http://code.google.com/p/maven-utplsql-plugin/
We [...]

PL/SQL is not exactly the coolest technology around these days but many businesses rely on it for their day-to-day operation. The fact that it is relatively old and does not mean that you cannot apply Extreme Programming(XP) practices to PL/SQL development. A few years ago, Steven Feuerstein developed utPLSQL, a unit testing framework for PL/SQL, [...]

Continuing with the series of blog posts regarding testing, automation and continuous integration, this time I will talk about how to integrate performance tests, in this case using Jmeter, with Maven and the Hudson continuous integration system. Jmeter is one of the main tools we use in our projects to create relevant performance tests, and [...]

Recently we have been running some problems while testing distributed applications with JUnit. The main problem was that we were running the client and the server within the same host. Although the test passed because the application logic was correct. Running the application distributed failed due to some errors related with the naming of the [...]