Cobertura - Test Coverage Tool

Many a times we wonder that why a software failed even when we have got everything insured with unit tests. Or some times the situation are when we are not exactly sure why the software is not working the way we want it too even though all the tests are passed. If you have gone through similar situations and looking for an answer, this is it.Cobertura is a versatile Java unit test coverage (This blog...

JMX

UNDERSTANDING JMX TECHNOLOGYJava Management Extensions (JMX) technology offers programmers the ability to add monitoring and management to their Java applications. In effect, these APIs allow you to locally or remotely manage anything Java-enabled, from web servers to network devices to web phones. JMX technology is defined by two closely related specifications developed through the Java Community Process (JCP): Java Specification Request (JSR) 3: Java Management Extensions (JMX) Specification and...

XML Timing Language

Introduction to XML Timing Language - XTLThe XML Timing Language (Timesheets) is at present submitted to the W3C org for discussion by the Helsenki University of Technology. This XML Timing Language is used for introducing the timings to the XML document elements.Hence XML Timing Language is a separate part of the XML document that specifies the timings for the different elements in the document. The XML Timing Language uses a subset of the Timing and Synchronization module of SMIL 2.0.To explain...

Watij - Web Application Testing in Java

WATIJ stands for 'Web Application Testing in Java'. J2EE deals with creating Web Applications, and like in most cases project teams cannot afford dedicated testers due to "resource limitations", "schedule limitation", "management limitations" and for many other unique explanations and reasons. In some cases where they even do hire manual testers, the job of the tester becomes tedious since most of the team nowadays follows Iterative development model like AGILE, Spiral etc. And thus they need to...

There exists NO Alternative 4 Unit Testing

There exists no alternative known for Unit Testing, although there exists '∞' number of tools which can help you in doing it. Since this blog is oriented towards J2EE, I will talk about JUnit. A tool that has revolutionize the way code is developed (Are you wondering why I didn't said "revolutionize Testing"? Its because its not helpful for tester, it is more helpful for developers). It truly is,...