Monthly Archives: November 2008

Stop testing so much!

Automated testing is a great way of maintaining quality on a software project, but often teams find themselves with long-running suites of tests that become a time killer in the iterative development process. Clover's new test optimization feature can dramatically reduce build times by selectively running only the tests relevant to a particular change. This means the test suite can be run locally prior to a commit. It also means CI server throughput is greatly improved, both of which mean faster feedback to development teams. The Test optimization integrates with your existing Ant or Maven2 build environment.

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As software engineers writing internationalised applications it's very useful to have quick access to vital information about Unicode characters such as their names, glyphs in various typefaces and how they are encoded under various schemes. Mac OS X has a very nice character palette that seems to be designed with us developer types in mind.

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