Vaporware Focus: Tool-support for Model-based Testing

I motivated the need for a user-friendly tool supporting model-based testing in practice in a previous post. The gist is that industry best-practice relies on logical test-cases rather than testing everything, and that is bad for software quality. The reason, I theorize, is that model-based testing is still a bit too academic, and requires a […]

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Model-based Testing

I’m working on a project where testing is important. We had a predecessor project with the same customer, and testing was also considered important at that time. During the previous project, I had problems communicating with the test coordinator; for one thing, we put importance on wildly different things. In the current project, we have […]

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Wishlist: Image Pipeline and Storage

I’m playing around with multiple ideas in the IoT world currently because I’m trying to collect 200 millistarbucks ((A millistarbucks is a measure of hipsterness I developed.  It is defined as 1000 millistarbucks is an entire Starbucks full of hipsters on MacBooks.)) of hipster Dictionary.  For this I am looking for two things: image pipelining […]

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Non-alternative Facts

Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the Trump leadership is just as hilarious as I predicted.  The past few weeks, people have been amused by the notion of “alternative facts,” and how that is obviously hogwash and propaganda.  It’s so easy to recognize alternative facts.  How about non-alternative facts?  Actual facts? My thesis is that it […]

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Nested Transactions and Dining Philosophers

So, here’s an interesting Java issue I came about last week. Java EE supports annotating methods using an @Transactional annotation.  If you’re familiar with it, it’s similar to the synchronized keyword except on the database level.  It also is if you’re not familiar with synchronized. Transactional supports setting how transactions should be picked up – […]

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Rainternet of Things

I got myself a BloomSky Sky 2 weather station on Kickstarter.  It’s pretty neat.  It measures all kinds of weather things, like temperature and humidity, and snaps pictures of the sky every 3 minutes during the day. The thing is cloud connected, which is hilarious because it’s about weather.  That means it uploads weather information […]

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