Is Economy Modern-Day Astrology?

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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