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Dan Allen on Arquillian Testing Framework

Arquillian is an integration and functional testing platform that can be used for Java middleware testing. It helps bring the tests to the runtime environment, freeing developers from managing runtime from within the test. InfoQ caught up with Dan Allen to talk about the framework features and its future roadmap.

Srini Penchikala
on May 14, 2012
How to Integrate Models And Code

While creating models in a form or another is very common, their combination with the code has been challenging. As a result, models are usually thrown away once the implementation has progressed. The reason is partly in the modeling languages used and partly in the tools applied. The article describes proven practices for working with both models and code.

Juha-Pekka Tolvanen
on May 08, 2012
Rob Eisenberg on Caliburn.Micro and MVVM

We spoke with Rob Eisenberg, creator of Caliburn and Caliburn Micro, about his experiences creating the popular framework and his thoughts on the MVVM in general.

Jonathan Allen
on May 07, 2012
The Future of Authentication

In this IEEE roundtable discussion hosted by guest editors Richard Chow, Markus Jakobsson, and Jesus Molina, the panelists discuss current authentication approaches, how to authenticate users on mobile devices and the future direction of authentication.

Steve Kirsch Scott Matsumoto Jesus Molina Ori Eisen Richard Chow Paul van Oorschot Markus Jakobsson Dirk Balfanz
on May 04, 2012
HTML5 offline web applications using ASP.NET MVC

One of the major constraints of web applications has always been connectivity, especially with mobile applications. In this article, Jef Claes shows you how to use HTML’s offline capabilities to ensure the application keeps working even when the network connection isn’t.

Jef Claes
on May 02, 2012
Net-Map - A Toolkit to Understand and Visualise Stakeholder Influence

Net-Map is a tool developed by Eva Schiffer that allows you through interviews to visualise and analyse how different people and groups influence a particular situation. It is of interest to Agile teams as it can help you understand who your stakeholders are, how they are connected and the level of influence they have. InfoQ recently caught up with Eva and asked her a few questions.

Craig Smith
on May 01, 2012
MongoDB, Java and Object Relational Mapping

Brian C. Dilley covers pitfalls, & strengths of using MongoDB ("a very approachable NoSQL solution"), and introduces MJORM. The MJORM project is an annotation free MongoDB Java ORM library. This article builds on Brian's real world in the trenches experience with MongoDB and includes "gotchas" like "Don't treat MongoDB like an RDBMS...", how to "design your indexes carefully", and more.

Brian C. Dilley
on Apr 30, 2012
Book Review: Experiences of Test Automation

“Experiences of Test Automation” is a compilation of experiences in the field that is hard to read from end to end but serves well as a reference for experienced readers by providing examples of approaches, obstacles and solutions in a variety of domains and technologies as well as insightful overviews from the authors.

Manuel Pais
on Apr 27, 2012
Benchmarking JVM Concurrency Options for Java, Scala and Akka

Michael Slinn examines how to benchmark JVM concurrency options for JVM-based langauges including Java and Scala.

Michael Slinn
on Apr 26, 2012
The Developer-Tester Divide

The evolution of the software industry has created two separate roles: The developer and the tester. Traditional software development put these two at odds. Now, agile practices are bringing them together again in order to meet the original business goal: working software.

Gil Zilberfeld
on Apr 25, 2012
From C# to Objective-C with Somya Jain

A shift has been occurring in the business world. Many consulting companies that traditionally write line-of-business applications in .NET are now being asked to build applications for iOS. And while .NET and Java will still be viable for years to come, there are a lot of opportunities for teams that are willing to cross-train. Somya Jain explains what that entails for C# developers.

Somya Jain
on Apr 24, 2012
Modeling Failure Scenarios in Systems

The increase in number of integrated systems in today’s enterprise solutions necessitates dealing with dependency and environment failures in a systematic way. By modeling dependency failures at the architecture stage, system response to failures can be communicated, tested and implemented reducing the business risk and cost.

Burag Cetinkaya
on Apr 23, 2012

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