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Three teams are currently building up their knowledge in Barcelona (.NET System Services), Montano Lucino/Como (Testing Services) and Flims (Embedded System Services). bbv Software Services encourages and supports ongoing personal and technical development. Furthermore our bootcamps are a great and fun … Continue reading

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Der Artikel Alte Software auf Vordermann bringen von Michel Estermann, Senior Software-Ingenieur im Embedded-Bereich bei bbv Software Services AG, ist im aktuellen im aktuellen Megalink erschienen. Michel Estermann zeigt in diesem Artikel auf, dass es sich trotz grossem Initialaufwand auch … Continue reading

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Memory errors are among the most difficult bugs to detect because they don’t seem to cause any outward problems until it is too late. A memory leak can cause an out of memory issue, and further calls to malloc or … Continue reading

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Agile testing is a software testing practice that follows the principles of agile software development. Agile testing is built upon the philosophy that testers need to adapt to rapid deployment cycles and changes in testing patterns. Providing and getting feedback … Continue reading

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If you are familiar with hamcrest and JUnit the time will come when you have the need to create your own matchers. Creating your own matcher can be as simple as useful. One reason for creating your own matcher could … Continue reading

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Have you ever thought that JUnit assertions are not really readable and do not correspond to natural language? It is a mess that the expected value is the first argument on an assert? This would not be like the spoken … Continue reading

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The World Congress for Software Quality (WCSQ), a major international gathering of software quality professionals, has scheduled its fifth congress for 31 October – 4 November 2011, in Shanghai under the slogan, “United Under One Banner: Best of Best Quality”. … Continue reading

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We use a lot of state machines in our projects. We use them for abstracting instruments that we control, controlling when user input controls have to be enabled or disabled and for other things. State machines are great for these … Continue reading

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I’m working in an agile software development team which develops a fairly complex automation system for manufacturing facilities. We are using Test Driven Development as our main tool to improve the overall quality of the code. We all knew that … Continue reading

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The first time you are looking at the Law-of-Demeter (LoD), it seems to be a bit academic. But as soon as you are doing real TDD, you will realize that the violation of the LoD will have major disadvantages.

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