Ranorex again and Unlocker

Now I know what a pre-alpha release means... I wrote several genious automatic tests and once in a while after renaming a test-bundle, all my code-customizations were gone and the standard-generated code was there. Very annoying! I pointed that out in the Ranorex-forum and they advised me to use inheritance. Quite a good tip and works for me :)

Another tool I don't want to miss anymore is Unlocker. Whenever you want to delete or rename a folder (e.g. C:\Programme\Weinmann) and a process still has a hold on some files (e.g. Visual Studio, Ranorex Studio or Explorer), you can see that with this tool and even cut off the handle to the file and continue with work :)

Book review "SOA?" and Ranorex

I recently finished (actually "flew over") the SOA-book: too academic and packed with stuff I don't bother. So don't waste your time with that book.

Today, I installed Ranorex: a GUI automation testing tool which can generate C#-code (yes! no scripting-bullshit like AutoIt or Workspace Macro Pro). With that, you can easily record test cases and elaborate them enhancing the generated code. One day and I managed to make a setup-test for the VENTIlogic: start WEINMANNsupport, select automatic port-search, create a new patient with !!!random!!! name, start the import, after import start WEINMANNadjust, connect to the device via automatic port-search, load "Werkseinstellungen" and change some parameters. Did I already mentioned the best? You can validate the results - great!

New look and ISO Recorder

New look :) I finally found the "=" characters ;)

One tool I don't want to miss anymore is ISO Recorder (create iso-files for WEINMANNsupport-Setup or SD-card-simulation). It integrates nicely into the context menu.

I hate select case

*Gähn* the SOA-book (SOA?) is sooo booooring. The business-part is too big. I fought to page 117 of 390 and no software in sight. I'll give it a try at least till 16.12. - on that day I have to return it to the library.

Book review "Essential Software Architecture"

Tomorrow I will finish Essential Software Architecture. Ian Gorton uses a real web-project all over the book and it fits surprisingly good in all chapters supporting the content by fabulous examples. Maybe the chapters were constructed around the project because the book itself has a way too much web-related content in my opinion. At the end of the book (actually 1/3 of it), there are chapters presenting one emerging new technology each. Of course MDA and SOA are on board. But what is really interesting is Aspect Oriented Architecture (AOP). My next book will handle SOA - maybe the one after SOA will be about AOP, we'll see :)

Book review "Effektive Software-Architekturen"

Once more, yesterday I finished a book. This time the afore mentioned "Effektive Software-Architekturen". Here, views are good explained - finally I got the difference between views and viewpoints :) This book has also lots of checklists and good advices which makes it a bit shallow. Next book I'm reading is Ian Gorton: Essential Software Architecture.

Here are a few links I want to check out: Buschmann et al 96: A system of patterns, Bass et al: Software architecture in practice, pacman03.pdf.

Book review "Handbuch der Software-Architektur"

I finished yesterday a book about software architecture: "Handbuch der Software-Architektur". It tries to cover all themes of architecture especially with a good comparison to a "real" building-architect. Unfortunately, it becomes very abstract and far away of reality to the end of the book. It's more like a study-book than a real hands-on one. So, don't read it ;)

Now I'm reading "Effektive Software-Architekturen". The introduction is very amusing with a comparison between the "Wasserfallmodell", "V-Modell" and agile methods (hier unbedingt lesen).

The beginning

I'll try to produce a blog here about interesting stuff I found on the web. I write this in english because I hope that someone of multilingual-ISS will find an interesting link or idea here. Right now, PDC is over and many high-quality-content screencasts were being generated. Here is just one of them about the future directions for MS VB (10 especially): the underscore will finally go away!!! Also look at Channel 9 in general and stay informed.