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Current Status of Java Static Analysis Tools
Static analysis tools help developers locate potential problems in their code. Static analysis is an inspection of code without executing it, looking for problems as varied as misunderstood APIs to use of the wrong boolean operators. This post summarizes the six of the leading tools and discusses the current trends in static analysis tools.
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TestDriven.NET 2.0 released
TestDriven.NET 2.0 was released last week. TestDriven.NET 2.0 supports the TDD framework and supports all version of Visual Studio .NET. TestDriven.NET is a Visual Studio plug-in providing support for Nunit, MBUnit, and Visual Studio Team System.
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Structure101 v2: Dependency and Architecture Analysis Tool
When projects get so big that no one person can visualize the whole thing, tools that can visualize the architecture and measure its complexity can help. Headway Software released v2 of Structure101, "an interactive tool that shows you dependency graphs from your code-base as either diagrams (the Directed Graph) or dependency matrices." said Structure101 CTO Chris Chedgey, talking to InfoQ.
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WCF Live Service Trace Viewer
Craig and Vittorio release their Live Service Trace Viewer which is an enhancement to the one provided in the .NET 3.0 SDK. The differentiator: you can view the WCF interactions as they happen.
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Glassbox - Automated monitoring and troubleshooting using AOP
Glassbox is a production Java monitoring solution built around AspectJ, released under LGPL. Glassbox made it's first public announcement yesterday with the release of Glassbox Automated Troubleshooter beta 2. Glassbox deployes as a war file to your appserver and then uses AspectJ load time weaving and to monitor app code and other artifacts.
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No Bug Database?
James Shore, a recognized speaker and writer in the Agile space, has had a crazy idea: Get rid of your bug database. He's not advocating that teams ignore problems; but bug databases are often so packed with questions, feature requests, and defects that there's little hope of their all being resolved. Shore and some others in Extreme Programming circles think there's a better way.
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A Rails memory leak profiling solution
Scott Laird was dealing with the difficulties of finding memory leaks in his Rails apps and came up with solution. Scott put the code for his solution up on his blog, respondents have already called it an essential tools they'll use on their projects going forward, and Scott promised to package it up as a plugin eventually.
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Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails
Well-known Railer Rabble launches a companion blog to his upcoming O'Reilly book covering the important topics of testing and debugging Ruby on Rails.
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soapui 1.6 beta now available
soapui 1.6 beta1 is now available. soapui is a desktop application for inspecting , invoking , developing and functional/load/compliance testing of web services over HTTP. It is mainly aimed at developers/testers providing and/or consuming web services (java, .net, etc).