The High Altitude Developer
How to implement __try __except in ML64 (MASM)
I'm currently working on a project that is requiring me to write a bunch of x64 assembly code. One...
Date: 03/10/2010
Beware of Auto-Reset Events (They Don't Behave the Way You Think They Do)
So I just spent several days debugging an intermittent crash in some test code. Part of the reason...
Date: 08/18/2008
Why Stepping Through Code Trumps Unit Testing
Over the past few years, there has been a big buzz about how writing unit tests (preferably via Test...
Date: 08/04/2008
Wither White-Box Testing?
I was recently reading JW's blog post on Prevention vs. Cure:...
Date: 07/24/2008
The Three Laws of Software Development
If you haven't read The Pragmatic Programmer, by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, I'd highly recommend...
Date: 03/31/2008
Using a Custom Proxy For Interception
I've been working on a system that required intercepting the method calls in an object model;...
Date: 11/07/2007
Why UI Automation Is Not All That And A Bag Of Chips
I spent some time today looking at an issue on a Korean system where a test was searching for a...
Date: 09/21/2007
The Designer Process That Would Not Terminate (Part 2)
In my previous post...
Date: 09/07/2007
The Designer Process that Would Not Terminate
I recently was asked to take a look at some VSTO test automation that wasn't behaving correctly on...
Date: 08/31/2007