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How to be rich with smalltalk - Intregrating RIA & Smalltalk

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Nowadays, more applications are RIA oriented solutions. RIA (Rich Internet Applications) is a new kind of application with more advantages than traditional applications. It emerges as a combination of features offered by web applications and desktop applications. Even multimedia capabilities are covered because these environments have internal players.

24 Sep 2009

Mutation testing

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During the 70s, mutation testing emerged as a technique to assess the fault-finding effectiveness of a test suite. It works mutating objects behavior and looking for tests to “kill” those mutants. The surviving mutants are the starting point to write better tests. Thus, this technique is an interesting alternative to code coverage regarding test quality.

18 Sep 2009