Category Archives: Software Development

Open Source Testing Tools for Java Applications

Open Source testing tools are being used aggressively and there are many tools over the web for Java Applications. These tools are great asset to the development teams and provides many features

Explore the Testability aspect for Java Code

The Testability Explorer is an open source project that lets you measure the testability of Java code. This is an interesting idea: a metric not of direct quality, or of testing, or

Software Requirements are Required Reading by project teams.

I have always challenges with the Software Requirements for the products and would be the same for others too. Most of the time, the requirements talk about just the functional needs and

Trends in Static Analysis Tools and Code Quality Metrics

Interesting trends are happening around Static Analysis and Code Quality. The tools vendors closely looking at each of the code quality metrics and merging them to have a better metric. We can

Trends in Static Analysis – ENERGY for better java code

I have come across yet another static analysis tool for Java programs. ENERGY is a free static analysis tool to measure code quality & presents overall status on the health of source

My quest towards Code Quality Metrics

  The term quality might mean different things to different people based on their context of operation and it’s tough to have universal definition for the same.My experiments with software development started

CRAP4J for Java Code Quality

I have been talking about Code Quality through Static Analysis for a while here, here & here. The quality for any application development must begin from it’s gross roots and the Application

What Jar – Solution to NoClassDefFoundError

As a Tester & Developer, it’s pretty common to see NoClassDefFoundError. It’s not that easy always to figureout the required jars for the application. Whatjar comes with a lot of search capabilities

Non linear paths from Application Code

The applications become complex as their code base increases. This has challenges for the testers to determine the nonlinear paths in the application.Most of the Static Analysis tools over the application code

Software Testing – Is it a cost or an Investment for Stakeholders ?

Software Testing is considered as a Cost for some Stakeholders & an Investment for others in their context of operation. It’s good to know the status in your context. I had this query in LinkedIn Answers & thought of sharing the good discussion