Test of the Quick, Small
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By JON W. GLASS  BY jon w. Glass  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  WALLOPS ISLAND - Tucked inside the top stage of the Minotaur I , scheduled to roar into space from here Monday morning, is an amateur telescope-turned-spy camera and some E. coli bacteria.
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Close on the heels of the SimpleTest 1.0RC1 release, is a new article titled "Coding a Login Box Shouldn't Hurt". Web sites can be fiddly to test, especially when it includes functionality like cookie handling and form filling. While manual testing is error prone and tedious, using a Web testing tool can automate the process, making development fast, accurate, and even fun. In this new article , Marcus Baker, helps you solve this tricky problem of authenticating users, by using test driven development.
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Researchers develop a new protein test that could one day take the guess-work out of making a diagnosis
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They say that great surprises come in small   packages. But in this case, great surprises come   because of small packages.
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Pay attention and you might grab a reward.
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Stores are stocked with an abundance of featherweight gadgets. But some of these tiny gadgets raise a new question: How small is too small?
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Pat Riley&#039;s experiment is about to be put to the test.
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Shared research produces fast, tiny memory ideal for consumer devices.
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Rob Thompson has posted about some simple benchmarking he did comparing the speed of a series of "if" statements versus one "switch" with multiple cases.   I got curious about which is actually more efficient at matching a random integer with a set of conditionals. So, I setup a script to create a set of large scripts to test the speed of these different constructs. Using the 'time' command, I measured the speed at which the condition could match a random number.   His results found that the switch statement is generally more than 2 times as fast at matching a simple integer. His tests, however, didn't go through much more than this simple test. It'd be interesting to see what it would do with something more complex (like longer strings or handling the result of an evaluation inside the definition of the switch().
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Get up to speed with the quick-serve industry.
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The maker of generics releases its third-quarter results with a little time to spare.
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Compact kit for the thumb-generation
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Miniature hard drive will feature a Compact Flash card form factor.
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A simple test of fingertip blood vessels may help identify people with the earliest stages of atherosclerosis, says a Mayo Clinic study in the current issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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On the PHP in Action Blog, there's a new post today that shares some tips for testing your web applications with some simple tests.   I just started listing the techniques I've learned when writing tests to exercise the web interface of a PHP application. This is from my experience and my personal preferences; it's not the final word or necessarily right for everyone.  He suggests:  Use SimpleTest's Web tester if you can Test the web output using regular expressions Use element IDs or names to test links, forms and fields Log HTTP requests in the application
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A short screening test,  developed by a Belgian team, which measures four clinical  variables can accurately predict the fitness of patients with  Parkinson's disease to drive, according to findings published  in the current issue of the journal Neurology.
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On the PHP in Action blog today, there's a quick new post that talks about not only using the Smarty templating system but also a method for testing it to check for any kind of possible failure.   As I mentioned in my blog post on Paparrazzi testing, Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin) has discussed how to test web templates or server pages. Since I'm currently working with Smarty templates, I wanted a simple way to run tests on them without needing to deal with a web server and the page navigation in a full web application.   Thankfully, he's found a nice, simple method for running tests against the Smarty engine (and includes that in the post - an interface to Smarty and the example test case to run against it).