A Quick Thought On UI Testing

July 1st, 2007 by James Carr

Writing a test that checks for static text on a page or dialog that will never change based on domain logic or system behavior and then writing the text to make it pass…

That’s not test driven development. It’s just a complete waste of time and absolutely stupid. By the kind of contrived logic such tests are based on, I should be writing tests for each of my blog posts. ;)

The USPTO Never Fails to Disappoint

July 12th, 2006 by James Carr

We always hear those sad sad stories everyday… some company patents something dead obvious then tries top hold an industry hostage over it. It really is sad the kind of patents that the USPTO issues.

Of course, the patent holder decided to sue Red Hat, only because they package Hibernate3 with their software. Silly, stupid, and … depressing.

I guess we can’t map objects to relational databases anymore huh? :(