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 / services over the quality of applications under development. We can use this as the starting point and focus more efforts on the uncovered areas for better quality. Continue reading

Testuff – The Test Management Tool for small and medium projects

Tweet Almost an year ago, I have evaluated some low cost and open source Test Management Tools. Managing the Test Efforts & Test documentation is always an issue for small and medium companies. The following were my requirements for Test Management Tool Capture the Requirements Design & Prepare Test Cases Continue reading

Explore the Testability aspect for Java Code

Tweet 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 of test coverage, but of ease of testing. Presumably code that is easy to test will get Continue reading

Trends in Static Analysis – ENERGY for better java code

Tweet 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 code. Energy comes with a code quality metric by combining the bug patterns on the source code Continue reading

My quest towards Code Quality Metrics

Tweet   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 over a decade ago & exploring the ways the helps to build & deliver good quality code.The Continue reading

CRAP4J for Java Code Quality

Tweet 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 Code is one of it’s starting point to begin with.Static Analysis techniques help us to identify some Continue reading

What Jar – Solution to NoClassDefFoundError

Tweet 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 to identify and download the required jars. Whatjar is a high-performance, search engine written using Java and Continue reading

Open Source Test Management Tools

Tweet   In this post, i will share my views & findings with Open Source Test Management Tools. Usage of tools in the Test Management is becoming the basic need & It will be tough to manage the activities associated there with out any support from the tools.   The Continue reading

JavaNCSS – A source code metrics suite for Java

Tweet I have been working on Java Projects for quite some time and interested in exploring the source code metrics like size and complexity across project not specific to perticular package or class and looking after LOC (Line of Code) counters to capture some metrics of the source code. Explored Continue reading