Frank Cohen's Blog
PushToTest is setting up a new test lab to check builds of TestMaker. We
bought Toshiba Satellite (A216) laptops for the lab. We tried installing
Windows XP over the pre-installed Windows Vista. Toshiba does not provide XP
device drivers for the laptop and they actively discouraged me in doing so in
a support call.
In the end I found no way to get the network adaptor to function under
Windows XP and had to reinstall Vista.
This made me wonder how much work is involved in producing XP drivers for a
laptop?
I installed Ubuntu on the Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu installed in 15 minutes - 49
for Windows XP and 125 for Windows Vista. Ubuntu's desktop came right up. I
opened the pre-installed Firefox browser and found I could browse the Web
immediately. Ubuntu i... (more)
Frank Cohen's Blog
Today is US Independence day and I stopped at the Apple store to see the
iPhone, and ask questions about the new MacBook Pro. I wanted to see the
iPhone in person to learn what I should expect from mobile phone people
interaction and feature sets. And I wanted to learn which MacBook Pro model
I'll be upgrading to in the next few weeks.
iPhone is beautiful. It is smaller... (more)
Frank Cohen's Blog
PushToTest TestMaker provides three ways to create a unit test that may be
then run as a functional test, load and scalability test, and service
monitor:
Use TestGen4Web to record a Web application Use the Network Proxy Recorder to
watch a browser interact with the host Write a unit test using one of the
many supported languages
The TestGen4Web utility does not support ... (more)
Software developers live in a time that offers the greatest choice of
software development tools, application servers, and connectivity ever. Each
choice you make affects the scalability and reliability of your finished
application, especially if you're building Web services. For example, as you
will learn in this article, my study of SOAP encoding styles found a 30-fold
performance impr... (more)
Frank Cohen's Blog
I will be teaching a one day course on AJAX at the SOA World Conference in
New York on June 27, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com/.
Click here to register
I will also be leading a session on XML and SOA performance optimization
using test automation. The session will include a demonstration of the new
PushToTest TestMaker Version 5
-Frank
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