Posts Tagged ‘Lien’

Test-Driven Requirements versus functional test automation

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Gilles nous propose une intéressante explication des tests fonctionnels démontrés dans le cadre du cours sur Test-Driven Requirements, qu’il donne à Valtech Training.

Scalability: Dynamic and Static Programming Languages

Friday, February 8th, 2008

In the wake of the demise of Chandler personal information management project, a discussion has occurred on TSS about the scalability potential of dynamic languages. Ted Neward attempted to go beyond language quarrel in order to provide some structured insights on this issue.  

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Refex:: Does code become better as it approaches English?

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Achieving readability and expressiveness by writing English-like code is one of the trends on the rise in today’s industry. Michael Feathers advocates for considering other alternatives that can be instrumental for improving code expressiveness. He argues that in some circumstances symbolic approach is more appropriate than the narrative one and highlights some trades-offs between them.

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Reflex:: Consistency vs. availability: eventual consistency by Werner Vogels

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Until the mid nineties, achieving distribution transparency and data consistency has often been the priority. As large Internet systems started to arise, availability became another important concern to be taken into consideration. Werner Vogels outlines some principles, abstractions and consistency/availability trade-offs related to large scale data replication with focus on eventual consistency. 

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