Posts tagged with 'test'


First post with Open Live Writer

Just a very small post, this, to announce that I’m now using Open Live Writer (OLW) as my blogging tool. Maybe not all the time, at least for the next couple of weeks. You could say that I’m still experimenting with the plug-ins I have for Windows Live Writer (WLW), so no code snippet blocks yet or “Now Playing”. Those are to be tested and played around with some more before I really jump in with both feet and uninstall WLW. […]

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JavaScript: Unit testing asynchronous functions

In a previous blog post, I talked about the QUnit unit testing library for JavaScript. In that post, I showed how to use it with a date library I was messing around with. If I were you I would review that previous blog post; it will help in what’s to come. […]

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PCPlus 290: Testing for randomness

A familiar topic for me for the January 2010 issue: testing a pseudo-random number generator’s (PRNG) output for randomness. I say familiar because I’ve talked about it before, most recently in my book. Well, OK that was 10 years ago, but still, the techniques don’t change. And it’s extremely fascinating, to boot. […]

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JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part 4)

Last time, I’d completed the cookie code. Well, “completed” in the sense of written it, but I now have to think about testing it. The writers of jQuery use a testing library called QUnit for their testing, so that’s what I’ll do too. […]

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