The find command is Linux is seriously cool. It allows you to do so much more than simply locate where a file lives. You can also do nifty stuff like delete all the temporary files on your whole hard drive, find broken links, delete empty files, search within files, and more. You can read about [...]

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Whatever your role or occupation there are doubtless times where you need to write a report. Most of the reports that I turn in are unique and need to be manually generated. However, my weekly test status report is pretty much the same every week and basically its just the stats that change. Poking around [...]

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I’m not sure if this is the intended behavior or not, but I found a “feature” in PyFIT that had me smashing the keyboard with my face. According to the PyFIT documentation you should be able to create a table like this: |TestClass| |InputString |OutputNum | |Hello World |>10 | |Python is cool!|1 < _ [...]

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I’m really starting to get into this whole FIT/FitNesse thing. Creating test cases is now easy and my managers love the HTML documentation and results that come out of the tools. Until now I’ve just been using FitNesse, but thanks to the hard work of Grig Gheorghiu and John Roth (the PyFIT author) here’s how [...]

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