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Hi guys. Today I want to talk about a little adventure I had yesterday night. It was quite the fun and frustration too. But neither comes without the other when it’s about linux. So let us see what the problem is at hand. The problem machine is a Dell Inspiron N5110 with Nvidia card number one: GeForce GT 525M. And number two: Integrated. Optimus for the win. So how windows is handling this is actually with a software called Optimus. Now linux wasn’t design to handle this properly but there are solutions. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start with the install. ...

Hello chumps. Today I want to write about jms connection testing with a small framework. I wrote a small thing using a factory object model. It’s a lead, a proof of concept. You can use this to go onward. First, let’s begin with the JMS connection it self. JMS Connection First rule of thumb is: “Don’t wait for a response when dealing with JMS queues.” How so? Because, a JMS queue is asynchronous so you wont get back anything. There are however two ways of checking if it was a success or not. ...

When I see something like this: public class Config { public static final string DATABASELINK = "linkhere"; . . . } It sends a small, but chilling shiver down my spine. Just. don’t. There are a lot of possibilities to use configuration in Java. Java property files. Xml. Xml serialization. CSV file. Whatever suits you best, but this? DON’T!

Hello Dear Visitor. Welcome to the ramblings of a software test engineer who thinks that he is a tester but feels like a developer but works as a tester but wants to learn programming like a developer. And so on and so fort. I will make a journey that has been done by many automation testers. The journey when you decide to step one forward. A friend of mine told me that it is good that a tester learns proper programming and that more should do so. She is right. And I will try to document this journey as best as possible. I will try to write down my experiences with java, android, automation, swing, maven, hudson, selenium, cucumber, TDD, BDD, Agile environment and whatever tool I meet. ...

Hello. This is just a quick post to test the working of the code tag. Given(/The Action is ([A-z]*)/) do |action| @action = action end Perfect!! The name of the plugin is WP-Syntax. The trick is to edit the page in plain HTML. Because the WordPress word editor screws up the <> tags. But surely you already knew that.