Showing posts with label software architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label software architecture. Show all posts
2025-04-06

The confusion about the term Unit Testing

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Virtually everyone claims to be doing Unit Testing, but there is a surprising amount of disagreement as to how unit testing is de...
2024-03-29

Artificial Code Coverage

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Abstract: In this paper I put forth the proposition that contrary to popular belief, 100% code coverage can be a very advantageo...
2024-01-28

Types of dependencies

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The term "dependency" is used very often in software engineering, but depending on context, it may mean slightly differ...
2023-12-29

Call Graph Acyclicity

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Abstract In technical design of software systems as conventionally practiced, call graphs often contain cycles. We show that cyc...
2023-12-23

Towards Authoritative Technical Software Design

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Abstract In this paper we examine the long-standing need within the Software Engineering Discipline for technical design docume...
2023-01-16

Definition: Collaborator

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I have been coming across the term collaborator  in software literature, and I have been using it too in my own writings, but wit...
2023-01-15

If you are using mock objects you are doing it wrong.

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Abstract: The practice of using Mock Objects in automated software testing is examined from a critical point of view and found t...
2023-01-08

Collaboration Monitoring

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Abstract: An automated software testing technique is presented which solves the fragile test problem of white-box testing by allowin...
2022-12-18

On messages and message-passing

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Over the decades, numerous software system architectures have emerged which require invocation...
2022-12-11

Intertwine

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Abstract A mechanism is described for automatically converting method invocations of any pr...
2022-10-19

Incremental Integration Testing

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Abstract: A new method for Automated Software Testing is presented as an alternative to Unit Testing . The new method retains t...
2022-10-18

Software Testing with Fakes instead of Mocks

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Abstract: What are fakes , what are their benefits, and why they are incontestably preferable over mocks . Also, how to create f...
2022-08-22

The Deployable Design Document

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Abstract A need is identified and a solution is proposed for a novel set of software tools to facilitate the visual composition ...
2022-08-16

On Microsoft "Visual" products

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The logo from Visio version 1.0 This post is intended as suppo...

On UML (oh, do not get me started)

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The UML logo, by Object Management Group®, Inc. from uml.org ; Public Domain. This post is intended as support material for another post ...
2021-12-14

White-Box vs. Black-Box Testing

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I have something blasphemous to tell you. Unit Testing is wrong. There, I said it. I know I just insulted most people's sacr...
2021-12-04

What is wrong with Full Stack Development

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Inntel Hotel at Amsterdam, Zaandam Table of Contents What is f...
2021-10-15

The Stateful Microservice

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I did a quick search for the term and did not find anything concrete, so I thought I might as well publicly document my thoughts. ...
2021-10-14

On Stateless Microservices

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This post discusses the stateless microservice design pattern; it is meant as support material for other posts of mine that discuss mi...

So, what is a Microservice, anyway?

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This article attempts to shed some light on what a microservice really is; it is meant as support material for other posts of mine that disc...