I will be speaking at tomorrow’s Code Camp Hartford 2 on the topic of using F# for the Testing and Analysis of existing code. This talk will be composed of much of the same material I used at Code Camp Waltham 11, although I will be preparing additional introductory material as many of my Waltham attendees had no prior exposure to F#.  I ...

At this Saturday’s Code Camp I’ll be giving a brand new presentation on using F#.  The goal of this presentation is to have those attending leave with an idea of what F# can help them achieve today as well as instill a desire to know more.  This post contains my presentation materials as well as links to additional information on the ...

Over the last six months I’ve given variations on the same F# presentation on six separate occasions.  Each time I’ve gotten a similar response: enthusiasm from a small percentage of the audience and glazed-over stares from the majority.  In retrospect it seems obvious that I’ve been missing one of the major tenets of making great ...

A wide range of subjects this week including testing, concurrent performance, exception handing and data structures.   Software – FsStory, a library for writing executable user stories in F# I feel that F#, with it’s concise syntax, is an ideal framework for writing tests.  Combined with FsStory F# is made much more powerful in this ...

There are four opensource frameworks that I'm going to compare here Selenium, YUI Test, jsUnit, and WatiN.  There are many others available to use, but these four are the ones that fit in best with the developer workflow here at Atalasoft. There are only two things that I think every web testing framework should always ...

Ben Bittrolff [The Financial Ninja] wrote a post that got me thinking about what it takes to be a relevant tester.  In it he points to the FT article that says, and I'm paraphrasing here, that incorrect Aaa ratings that had been assigned to those big mortgage re-insurers was caused by a bug in the software, and that Moody's management ...