The NHS Information Centre (NHSIC) held a Hack week on the 10th -14th October. They invited suppliers with relevant experience within the industry along to highlight various problems that they will face when trying to accomplish their strategic vision for information – the Open Data Platform (ODP). The goal is to build an open, easily [...]

It is not often that you get the opportunity to get involved with an event on the scale of Global Day of Code Retreat (GDCR). On Saturday (3rd December, 2011) an estimated 2200 software developers gathered in more than 90 cities around the world to solve a relatively simple computing problem. The objective was to [...]

Very recently, I was working on a test class like this:public class AnalyticsExpirationDateManagerTest extends TestCase { private static final long ONE_HOUR_TIMEOUT = 1000 * 60 * 60; private static final long TWO_HOUR_TIMEOUT = ONE_HOUR_TIMEOUT * 2; p…

Quality has always been a “hot” subject in software engineering, and several good development practices used in Agile development, unit testing for example, have been created to improve the quality of the softwares developed. Programme Managers, Project Managers and Assurance Quality Managers haven’t just been looking for techniques to improve quality, they’ve also been looking [...]

Often I see Unit Tests with the test methods that have the same name as the method under test prefixed with the word “test” e.g. testSubmitApplication. This provides no extra information on which “flow” of the mothod is being tested. Other test method names provide a bit more information by suffixing the nature of the [...]