An acquaintance posted something socialist with a comment comparing economics to astrology the other day. The comparison intrigued me, not because I agreed nor because I found it ridiculously outrageous, but because it wonderfully illustrates the problem people on either side of the political spectrum (not to be confused with the autism spectrum, though the […]
Why are Russian Election Hackers a Problem?
There’s a lot of news about Russians hacking the American election. By publishing e-mails from the Democratic campaign, they have manipulated and in the end delivered the victory to Donald Trump. Except, I don’t think that’s the whole truth. I think that trying to blame “the Russians” is a big mistake and might even lead […]
A Very Lively Memory Leak
It’s summer, and we all all know what that means: rain! And when it rains, things get all leaky. Memory leaky. The past couple days, we encountered a particularly interesting memory leak. We had some code which would leak memory and after around a month or so of running, it would start yielding problems. Due […]
Stubbing and Calling
I’m not even going to pretend this isn’t cool as hell: I got a hole thru on my tool for model-based testing, the MBT Workbench. I can now automatically generate a test-suite from a service description and do a comprehensive invocation. Last time, I was talking about how we set up tests in the MBT […]
User-Interface too Noisy? Add More Icons!
Last time, we looked at how the MBT Workbench assists the user in deriving an input mapping from a service definition. This time, we will look at what input mappings look like and how they can be created inside the MBT Workbench, and we’ll also take a look at how the entire meta-model is implemented. […]
Generic Data-types for User-interfaces
I’m playing around making an application for model-based testing. It’s a standard GUI application, so of course, I am relying on the model-view-controller design pattern for the overall structure. I am, however, too lazy to set up a big-ol’ object model, so the basic structure of my model is just this: [java] public class Project extends […]