I’m in a QA testing cycle on my current project, so I have a few minutes here and there to look at things I’ve put aside during busy times. Right now I’m finally reading through Writing Testable Code by the Google people. It’s good, if a little Google-centric (lots of… Read more »
Not only can SoapUI mock a web service, it supports using SSL to connect to that service, and even to require client authentication via certificate. This post on the SoapUI support blog walks through the steps to enable SSL support, but doesn’t handle client authentication. There are also a couple of tricky… Read more »
SoapUI is a very useful tool to test web services, but it can also be used to mock a web service, so you can test service clients as well. We’ve used this at my current client for a couple of reasons: The real service is not available for some reason… Read more »
TheServerSide is hosting a really good address by Neal Ford on programmer productivity in an enterprise called Productive Programmer: On the Lam from the Furniture Police. He’s got some good thoughts on how the mind works and how to structure things to maximize productivity. A lot of it is very similar… Read more »
About four years ago, I decided to switch my keyboard layout from QWERTY to Dvorak. I was starting to get some pain in my wrists, and I’d read that Dvorak reduced a lot of the repetitive motions that I thought were causing my troubles. I’ve played piano for decades, so… Read more »