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  • Should We Mask Passwords?

    - by Abi Noda
    From Jacob Nielson's "Stop Password Masking": Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn't even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures. What do you guys think?

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  • Website column width

    - by keks
    Hi, I am interested what column widths you would suggest for two-column and three-column websites. For example if we consider two-column layout (total width 1000px), some possible widths would be: 900-100, 800-200, 750-250, 700-300, 600-400. Which layout is best for usability, possible ad placements, widget integration?

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  • Best openid implementation

    - by AyKarsi
    I think OpenId has many things for it. But the biggest beef I have with it, is usability. Especially the technically non-savvy have dificulty understanding that the need to select a "provider" to login. Stackoverflows login implementation is quite good, but I think it would cost me quite some explaining to get my mother to use here gmail account to register/login to another site... So the question is: Does anynone know OpenId register/login implemtantions which are more usable than Stackoverflows?

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  • User name form validation message

    - by Samuel
    I have a form validation message for the user name field which says the following Name can only contain alphabets, '.' and ' ' characters OR should it be Name can only contain alphabets, dot and space characters OR should it be Name can only contain alphabets, dot (".") and space (" ") characters Which is preferable from a usability perspective assuming the end users has very less exposure to computers.

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  • Is there any pros to duplicate browser/keyboard functionality?

    - by metal-gear-solid
    Is it good for user experience to duplicate browser/keyboard functionality? For example: to provide these links on a web-page. "Back to top" link "Print this page" link "Add to Favorite" link "Back" button/link "Text zoom" button Are they really create Site's usability and accessibility? How screen reader will behave these links, will these confuse to screen reader users?

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  • What issues tend to arise when working with HL7 messages?

    - by Ethel Evans
    I'm testing a product for health care businesses, and we're working with HL7 messages. I saw people groaning on another question about the issues with HL7 but not mentioning specifics. Can someone give me some ideas of what issues or classes of problems we should specifically be looking for? We are using some well-used libraries for the parsing. If specifics about these or what we're doing would be helpful please let me know in the comments and I'll add to the question if I can.

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  • What would a start-to-finish development procedure would look like?

    - by Tom Busby
    I have a problem that my developer friends share. We recently left university and find ourselves either end up working for a firm which already has good procedures (TDD, automated testing, proper agile development, etc) or working for a firm which doesn't. I want to learn some of these vital skills and get a grip on what a complete start-to-finish development procedure would look like. What differences would be between a smaller project, and a long term project with many team members.

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  • Quality Assurance & Quality Control = verification & validation?

    - by user970696
    According to a book (page below), reviewing e.g. design (verification activity) is quality assurance. I would not agree, I would say its quality control because we are checking the conformance to specification, plans and detecting deviations (defects) as we do in quality control. But what would be an example of QA then? Could you give me a clear example that proves/disproves what is this book saying? Software Testing: Srinisvasan Desikan, Gopalaswamy Ramesh

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  • Introducing QuickUnit

    - by RoyOsherove
    A friend of mine, Ariel, just finished up his latest project, in the unit testing world – called QuickUnit. From the site: QuickUnit significantly reduces the time needed to design and generate high-quality unit tests. I see it as an interactive unit test generator with all the options for isolation included. give it a whirl

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  • Test interface implementation

    - by Michael
    I have a interface in our code base that I would like to be able to mock out for unit testing. I am writing a test implementation to allow the individual tests to be able to override the specific methods they are concerned with rather than implementing every method. I've run into a quandary over how the test implementation should behave if the test fails to override a method used by the method under test. Should I return a "non-value" (0, null) in the test implementation or throw a UnsupportedOperationException to explicitly fail the test?

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  • Is Debug.Assert obsolete if you write unit tests?

    - by Justin Pihony
    Just like the question asks, is there a need to add Debug.Assert into your code if you are writing unit tests (which has its own assertions)? I could see that this might make the code more obvious without having to go into the tests, however it just seems that you might end up with duplicated asserts. It seems to me that Debug.Assert was helpful before unit-testing became more prevalent, but is now unnecessary. Or, am I not thinking of some use case?

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  • Generating Report for NUnit

    - by thangchung
     All source codes for this post can be found at my github.Time ago, I received a request that people ask me how they can generate reports of the results of testing using NUnit? In fact, I may never do this. In the little world of my programming, I only care about the test results, red-green-refactoring, and that was it. When I got that question quite a bit unexpected, I knew that I could use NCover to generate reports, but reports of NCover too simple, it did not give us more details on the number of test cases, test methods, ... And I began to see about creating interesting report for NUnit.I was lucky to find an open source here. Its authors call it NUnit2Report, but one disadvantage is it only running on .NET 1.0. Indeed too old compared to the current version 4.0. And I try to download the preview, but I could not run. I had to open its source code and found that it uses XSLT to convert the output of NUnit results from XML to HTML. Nothing really special, because I also knew that after NUnit run output file extension is XML is created. Author only use this file to convert to HTML using XSLT. And I decided to convert it to. NET 4.0, because I will not have to code from scratch. Conversion work made me take some time, but was lucky that I finally have what I want. Thanks Gilles for the this OSS. I will send a mail to thank him for his efforts but put this out for the OSS. Now I will show people how to do it. I used the auto built NAnt and NUnit for running TestCase, and I use Selenium testing framework. After writing three TestCase using Selenium, I ran NUnit, and got the following results: There are 1 fail and 2s success. In the bin directory of this project will have the NUnit output file as shown below: Then I create a build file, and a bat file for easy running (can use PowerShell is here also.) Double click in the bat file to create a report like this:       Finally open the index.html file in the folder to view report. As everyone can see, it is the TestCase and divide very clearly, that I meet the requirements. This is really good. Once again I really thank NUnit2Report from Gilles. People can contact him via the mail address [email protected] or website  http://nunit2report.sourceforge.net. It really is useful to those who promised to QA. Hopefully this post will help anyone really interested in doing reports for NUnit.   

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  • Interesting links week #9

    - by erwin21
    Below a list of interesting links that I found this week: Frontend: Subway Map Visualization jQuery Plugin Internet Explorer 9 Guide for Developers Development: Html Agility Pack Cache Integration - Building and Using Custom OutputCache Providers in ASP.NET Marketing: A/B testing applications Other: Top 10 Reasons Web Developers Should Avoid Flash Interested in more interesting links follow me at twitter http://twitter.com/erwingriekspoor

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  • If your unit test code "smells" does it really matter?

    - by Buttons840
    Usually I just throw my unit tests together using copy and paste and all kind of other bad practices. The unit tests usually end up looking quite ugly, they're full of "code smell," but does this really matter? I always tell myself as long as the "real" code is "good" that's all that matters. Plus, unit testing usually requires various "smelly hacks" like stubbing functions. How concerned should I be over poorly designed ("smelly") unit tests?

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  • tdd is about design not verification what does it concretely mean?

    - by sigo
    I've been wondering about this. What do we exactly mean by design and verification. Should I just apply tdd to make sure my code is SOLID and not check is correct external behaviour ? Should I use Bdd for the correct behaviour part ? Where I get confused also is regarding TDD code katas, to me they looked like more about verification than design... shouldn't they be called bdd katas instead of tdd katas? I reckon that for example uncle bob bowling kata leads in the end to a simple and nice internal design but I felt that most of the process was more around vérification than design. Design seemed to be a side effect of testing incrementally the external behaviour. I didnt feel so much that we were focusing most of our efforts on design but more on vérification. While normally we are told the contrary, that in TDD, verification is a side effect, design is the main purpose. So my question is what should i focus exactly on when i do tdd: SOLID, external Api usability, what else...? And how can I do that without being focused on verification ? What do you guys focus your energy on when you are practicing TDD ?

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  • CloudSeeder: CLR Stored Procedures For Creating CPU Pressure

    - by Adam Machanic
    Sometimes, in the interest of testing various scenarios that your server might encounter, it's useful to be able to quickly simulate some condition or another. I/O, memory, CPU pressure, and so on. This latter one is something I've been playing with a lot recently. CPU pressure in SQL Server creates all sorts of interesting side-effects , such as exacerbating waits and making various other conditions much easier to reproduce. In order to make this simpler, I've created the attached CLR library. This...(read more)

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  • "TDD is about design, not verification"; concretely, what does that mean?

    - by sigo
    I've been wondering about this. What do we exactly mean by design and verification. Should I just apply TDD to make sure my code is SOLID and not check if it's external behaviour is correct? Should I use BDD for verifying the behaviour is correct? Where I get confused also is regarding TDD code Katas, to me they looked like more about verification than design; shouldn't they be called BDD Katas instead of TDD Katas? I reckon that for example the Uncle Bob bowling Kata leads in the end to a simple and nice internal design but I felt that most of the process was centred more around verification than design. Design seemed to be a side effect of testing the external behaviour incrementally. I didn't feel so much that we were focusing most of our efforts on design but more on verification. While normally we are told the contrary, that in TDD, verification is a side effect, design is the main purpose. So my question is what should I focus on exactly, when I do TDD: SOLID, external API usability, or something else? And how can I do that without being focused on verification? What do you guys focus your energy on when you are practising TDD?

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  • iOS - Unit tests for KVO/delegate codes

    - by ZhangChn
    I am going to design a MVC pattern. It could be either designed as a delegate pattern, or a Key-Value-Observing(KVO), to notify the controller about changing models. The project requires certain quality control procedures to conform to those verification documents. My questions: Does delegate pattern fit better for unit testing than KVO? If KVO fits better, would you please suggest some sample codes?

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  • Testing Django Inline ModelForms: How to arrange POST data?

    - by unclaimedbaggage
    Hi folks, I have a Django 'add business' view which adds a new business with an inline 'business_contact' form. The form works fine, but I'm wondering how to write up the unit test - specifically, the 'postdata' to send to self.client.post(settings.BUSINESS_ADD_URL, postdata) I've inspected the fields in my browser and tried adding post data with corresponding names, but I still get a 'ManagementForm data is missing or has been tampered with' error when run. Anyone know of any resources for figuring out how to post inline data? Relevant models, views & forms below if it helps. Lotsa thanks. MODEL: class Contact(models.Model): """ Contact details for the representatives of each business """ first_name = models.CharField(max_length=200) surname = models.CharField(max_length=200) business = models.ForeignKey('Business') slug = models.SlugField(max_length=150, unique=True, help_text=settings.SLUG_HELPER_TEXT) created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True) phone = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True) mobile_phone = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True) email = models.EmailField(null=True) deleted = models.BooleanField(default=False) class Meta: db_table='business_contact' def __unicode__(self): return '%s %s' % (self.first_name, self.surname) @models.permalink def get_absolute_url(self): return('business_contact', (), {'contact_slug': self.slug }) class Business(models.Model): """ The business clients who you are selling products/services to """ business = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True) slug = models.SlugField(max_length=100, unique=True, help_text=settings.SLUG_HELPER_TEXT) description = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True) primary_contact = models.ForeignKey('Contact', null=True, blank=True, related_name='primary_contact') business_type = models.ForeignKey('BusinessType') deleted = models.BooleanField(default=False) created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True) address_1 = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) address_2 = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) suburb = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) city = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) state = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) country = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) phone = models.CharField(max_length=40, null=True, blank=True) website = models.URLField(null=True, blank=True) class Meta: db_table = 'business' def __unicode__(self): return self.business def get_absolute_url(self): return '%s%s/' % (settings.BUSINESS_URL, self.slug) VIEWS: class Contact(models.Model): """ Contact details for the representatives of each business """ first_name = models.CharField(max_length=200) surname = models.CharField(max_length=200) business = models.ForeignKey('Business') slug = models.SlugField(max_length=150, unique=True, help_text=settings.SLUG_HELPER_TEXT) created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True) phone = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True) mobile_phone = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True) email = models.EmailField(null=True) deleted = models.BooleanField(default=False) class Meta: db_table='business_contact' def __unicode__(self): return '%s %s' % (self.first_name, self.surname) @models.permalink def get_absolute_url(self): return('business_contact', (), {'contact_slug': self.slug }) class Business(models.Model): """ The business clients who you are selling products/services to """ business = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True) slug = models.SlugField(max_length=100, unique=True, help_text=settings.SLUG_HELPER_TEXT) description = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True) primary_contact = models.ForeignKey('Contact', null=True, blank=True, related_name='primary_contact') business_type = models.ForeignKey('BusinessType') deleted = models.BooleanField(default=False) created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True) address_1 = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) address_2 = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) suburb = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) city = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) state = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) country = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True) phone = models.CharField(max_length=40, null=True, blank=True) website = models.URLField(null=True, blank=True) class Meta: db_table = 'business' def __unicode__(self): return self.business def get_absolute_url(self): return '%s%s/' % (settings.BUSINESS_URL, self.slug) FORMS: class AddBusinessForm(ModelForm): class Meta: model = Business exclude = ['deleted','primary_contact',] class ContactForm(ModelForm): class Meta: model = Contact exclude = ['deleted',] AddBusinessFormSet = inlineformset_factory(Business, Contact, can_delete=False, extra=1, form=AddBusinessForm, )

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  • XFCE: active panel buttons when mouse is on screen edge

    - by Dave Vogt
    I'm using XFCE 4.6.1 (Xubuntu distribution) on my laptop and main computer; the settings are approximately the same. so far for the intro. What I'm experiencing is that when going to the screen edge over the task bar on the laptop, the button under the mouse is active. On the main machine however, having the mouse on the screen edge, the button below it doesn't react at all! Only if I move the pointer towards the center a bit, the hover highlight starts and the button becomes clickable. I've tried to change the panel size, desktop theme and a few other settings, but none seems to cure that problem. Is there something that causes this problem? (Googling also seems to give no results)

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  • Is email encryption practical enough?

    - by Dimitri C.
    All emails I have ever sent were sent as plain text. Like postcards, everybody on the way to the addressee could easily read and store them. This worries me. I know privacy is something of the past, but encrypting email is possible, at least in theory. However, I wonder whether it is practical enough. Is there anybody who has experience with email security? Is it easy to set up? And can you still send and receive email from all you friends and acquaintances?

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  • GWT: Best practice for unit testing / mocking JSNI methods?

    - by Epaga
    I have a class which uses JSNI to retrieve JSON data stored in the host page: protected native JsArray<JsonModel> getModels() /*-{ return $wnd.jsonData; }-*/; This method is called, and the data is then translated and process in a different method. How should I unit test this class, since I'm not able to instantiate (or seemingly mock?) JsArray? What is the best way to unit test JSNI methods at all?

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  • Bringing Google Docs to the Desktop.

    - by Jonathan Sampson
    Is there a stable way of accessing Google Docs (application) from my desktop without having to use a browser on Windows? On my accepted answer... While I did stipulate that I wanted to not use my browser, I didn't really mean I wanted to avoid browser technology. I meant I didn't want to open my browser, type in the web address for google docs, etc. TheTXI's answer required me to download/install nothing more than what I already had (Chrome) to acheive this. It created a desktop icon (similar to an application) that launches me right into my docs (similar to an application), without extra browser-items on the screen. This was an excellent suggestion, and won by virtue of parsimony.

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  • Windows 8 - can't drag files from Explorer and drop on applications

    - by FerretallicA
    In Windows 8 I find I can't drag files to applications like I've been able to do for as long as I can remember. Example: Drag MP3s to Winamp Drag folder full of music to Winamp Drag videos to VLC Drag txt, reg etc files to Notepad I have tried various combinations of: Running Explorer as administrator Running drop target as administrator Taking ownership of drop target application's folder Taking ownership of Explorer Changing user account to administrator Create a new user account Lowering UAC level Disabling UAC in GUI Disabling UAC in registry Running Explorer folders in a separate thread This is the last straw if there's no known proper (ie non hacky compromise) fix for this. "Little" things like this combined are a productivity nightmare and if I have to relearn so much and configure so much to get basic things done with an OS I might as well just move to Linux once and for all.

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