June 23, 2007
iPhone tour
Here are a few thoughts that popped into my mind as I was watching the iPhone tour video:
- Can't start typing a number or a few letters to place a call (either you select from the address book or you remember the full phone number).
- Visual voice mail rocks.
- Touch screen is good for many more activities than I thought (but I suspect, still terrible to type text).
- Overall, it's quite striking to see how the UI (and the entire demo) downplays typing. Quite a contrast compared to how much typing is used in iTunes or search on Mac OS. For example, if I want to add the picture of Sarah Young to her contact info, I would start typing "y o". With the iPhone, you have to scroll through your address book (lucky him, there is only one entry in the "y" category, what a coincidence!).
- Is it possible to buy something from the iTunes store from the phone? (not shown in the demo, so I'm guessing not).
- Good handling of the headphone/music/incoming call activity.
- Safari: "renders just like on your computer". Honest.
- Web page zooming is cool.
- Google button!
- The typist doesn't seem to make any mistakes with the keyboard. I'm still a bit skeptical about that, but we'll see. Good to see they have spelling correction (and nice demo with the thumbs).
- Claims Gmail access... Probably through POP... lame.
- Can check email automatically.
- Maps looks awesome. With traffic! (network access too fast to be true, though). The turn by turn instructions don't seem to do text to speech, unfortunately.
- "There are many ways you can customize your iPhone"... as long as you choose black.
Posted by cedric at 09:58 PM
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June 14, 2007
Announcing TestNG 5.6
I'm happy to announce the release of TestNG 5.6. The Eclipse and IDEA plug-ins have also been updated to this new version.
Here is the change log.
Core
- Added: SkipException/TimeBombedSkipException for manual skipping
- Added: <tests> can now be disabled at xml level using <test enabled="false">
- Added: Suite files that only contain other suites do not get reported
- Fixed: @BeforeClass methods would incorrectly report cyclic graphs
- Added: get/setAttribute to ITestContext
- Added: plugging in factory objects to handle the actual instantiation of tests
- Added: dataProvider to @Factory
- Added: ISuite now gives access to the current XmlSuite
- Fixed: TESTNG-139 dependsOnMethods gets confused when dependency is "protected"
- Fixed: TESTNG-141 junit attribute set to false in testng-failed.xml when it should be true
- Fixed: TESTNG-142 Exceptions in DataProvider are not reported as failed test
- Added: Improved behavior for @Before/@AfterClass when using @Factory (link)
- Added: Support for concurrent execution for invocationCount=1 threadPoolSize>1 and @DataProvider (link)
- Added: New TestNG specific XML report, generated by default in 'xml' subdirectory of test-output
- Added: support in strprotocol for passing the ITest.getTestName() information
- Fixed: TESTNG-152 If DataProvider is not found, the exception message should tell exactly what happened
- Fixed: Bug that made group launch configurations unusable
- Fixed: The plugin doesn't create the correct launch configuration for @Factory
- Fixed: Method based launchers cannot be editted
- Fixed: Plugin hangs while executing test with dataprovider that sends \n, \r messages
- Added: display ITest.getTestName()
- Fixed: IDEA 7.0 compatibility
- Fixed: occasional 'illegal arguments exception'
- Fixed: TESTNG-151 Final passing test result is not properly hidden
- Added: Auto-completion for dependsOnMethods
- Added: Highlighting of invalid groups/methods in dependsOn*
Posted by cedric at 06:40 AM
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