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Jan 28, 2008  –  Survey on Business Benefits of Unit Testing

Artur Hildebrandt is a MBA student at the University of Liverpool and currently running a survey on the business benefits and risks of unit testing. His goal is to identify and measure benefits software development organizations can gain by actively practicing unit testing. I think it would be great to have more information available to persuade management on the benefits of unit testing so I'm happy to promote his survey. If you'd like to take part his questionnaire available at online.

Jan 27, 2008  –  Continuous Integration at JaSST'08 Tokyo

I'm sitting here in SFO waiting for my flight to Tokyo. I'll be speaking this week at JaSST, the Japanese Symposium on Software Testing. This will be a bit different from my normal talks on CI because I'll be focusing on the benefits of CI for testing groups rather than my normal focus on developers. And there will be translation into Japanese which makes for a very different presentation experience. But I'm very excited about giving this talk because Continuous Integration is less well known in Japan than in Europe, Australia or the US, so it will be fun to be bringing the message to a new audience.

Jan 16, 2008  –  AgitarOne available as a downloadable eval!

Several prospects and friends in the software development business have asked us to make a downloadable eval for AgitarOne available on our web site. It is finally here!

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Jan 14, 2008  –  Hoorah for XSLT!
It would be handy to have a report of all the unexpected exceptions that get thrown.

I've lost count of the number of times I've heard that. I've even said it myself a few times.

It seemed like it would be pretty easy to do using the dashboard.xml feature of AgitarOne, so I decided to give it a try.

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Jan  8, 2008  –  Crap4j 1.1.6 Released

Crap4j 1.1.6 is out. The new version features historical trends of CRAP metrics, and comparison by similarly tagged projects. Exciting!

Jan  3, 2008  –  JUnit Factory is a Jolt Award Finalist!

First we generate over a million free JUnit tests and then we get nominated for a Jolt Award.

What a great end to the first year of JUnit Factory!