So recently Ralf and I were asked to evaluate developing an application for the iPhone.
We did some research tonight and discovered a few tools of interest:
Eclipse Plugin (I can hear the developer types among you saying duh!).
iPhone ToolChain for windows.
We are also looking to develop a simple application for the following mobile platforms:
RIM (blackberry)
Nokia
Windows Mobile 6
We want to be able to test various devices WiFI capabilities, and revenue generating applications as we build out our WiFI network.
I'll be posting more about my mobile development adventures as time goes on.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
More on testing
My good friend Dallas Legan recently blogged on the subject of software testing. He raised some very interesting points about web application testing as well as non web app testing.
I also recently blogged on testing as well.
Dallas brings up some very good points in regards to putting a testing framework at the virtualization layer. Until recently I was a very heavy VmWare user and proponent. However I have recently been exposed to OpenVZ and will never ever go back to VmWare to run linux guests on linux hosts. The power of container/operating system virtualization, the performance gains, the tie in with the host.... its so amazing. Solaris has something similiar called Zones.
I am amazed that thus far no one has considered the virtualization layer an ideal place for testing, information assurance etc. However its a perfect place. In fact as more and more applications and workloads are accepted and certified for virtual operation, it becomes the only place. Common wisdom seemed to shy away from virtualizing workloads that are very I/O bound, but with container/operating system virtualization, I now believe that a 100% virtualized environment is possible. Even for things that are very I/O intensive and require low latency such as Voice over IP applications, databases, e-mail servers etc.
So in a fully virtualized environment (including the network components with the power of software switches such as VDE, Linux Virtual Server for load balancing, SQUID for content caching and on and on ) one begins to see that testing, integration and deployment become vastly simpler.
More on this subject later.
I also recently blogged on testing as well.
Dallas brings up some very good points in regards to putting a testing framework at the virtualization layer. Until recently I was a very heavy VmWare user and proponent. However I have recently been exposed to OpenVZ and will never ever go back to VmWare to run linux guests on linux hosts. The power of container/operating system virtualization, the performance gains, the tie in with the host.... its so amazing. Solaris has something similiar called Zones.
I am amazed that thus far no one has considered the virtualization layer an ideal place for testing, information assurance etc. However its a perfect place. In fact as more and more applications and workloads are accepted and certified for virtual operation, it becomes the only place. Common wisdom seemed to shy away from virtualizing workloads that are very I/O bound, but with container/operating system virtualization, I now believe that a 100% virtualized environment is possible. Even for things that are very I/O intensive and require low latency such as Voice over IP applications, databases, e-mail servers etc.
So in a fully virtualized environment (including the network components with the power of software switches such as VDE, Linux Virtual Server for load balancing, SQUID for content caching and on and on ) one begins to see that testing, integration and deployment become vastly simpler.
More on this subject later.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Non Website Testing Tools
Recently I presented to UUASC on website testing tools. My slide deck can be found online here.
Some members asked about non website testing tools. I did some research into the matter and discovered quite a few.
The one stop shop for all your open source software testing wants is http://www.opensourcetesting.org
All sorts of good stuff there.
For some particular needs I have had lately, I have found a few software packages of great interest:
http://linuxtesting.org/
http://www.unitesk.com/
Linux Test Project
Those are oriented towards end to end system testing. A handful of other projects exist which focus on testing specific areas such as database, network performance etc.
I'll be looking at testing tools in much more detail in the 3rd quarter of this year. I currently have a bookmark dump on del.icio.us of several testing packages which are of interest to me.
Some members asked about non website testing tools. I did some research into the matter and discovered quite a few.
The one stop shop for all your open source software testing wants is http://www.opensourcetesting.org
All sorts of good stuff there.
For some particular needs I have had lately, I have found a few software packages of great interest:
http://linuxtesting.org/
http://www.unitesk.com/
Linux Test Project
Those are oriented towards end to end system testing. A handful of other projects exist which focus on testing specific areas such as database, network performance etc.
I'll be looking at testing tools in much more detail in the 3rd quarter of this year. I currently have a bookmark dump on del.icio.us of several testing packages which are of interest to me.
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