Bits and pieces of John Dalton from all over your internet. - tagged with testing http://johndalton.info/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron john@johndalton.info Sample datasets for benchmarking and testing http://johndalton.info/items/view/8444/sample-datasets-for-benchmarking-and-testing ]]> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:55:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/8444/sample-datasets-for-benchmarking-and-testing Sample datasets for benchmarking and testing http://johndalton.info/items/view/8258/sample-datasets-for-benchmarking-and-testing

This post contains links to a few different real-world datasets that can be used for populating databases for testing. The comments are good too, and include links to several more datasets.

]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:17:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/8258/sample-datasets-for-benchmarking-and-testing Watir - open source web browser automation. http://johndalton.info/items/view/6765/watir-open-source-web-browser-automation

Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers.

]]> Fri, 20 May 2011 02:21:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/6765/watir-open-source-web-browser-automation View HTTP Request and Response Header http://johndalton.info/items/view/2450/view-http-request-and-response-header

Simple tool for inspecting the headers of the response sent back by a webserver. Doesn't do anything that Firebug or Chrome dev tools don't do, but it's lightweight and requires no installation.

]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:55:00 -0600 http://johndalton.info/items/view/2450/view-http-request-and-response-header These Are Not Bad Names http://johndalton.info/items/view/1146/these-are-not-bad-names

Notes for programmers on edge cases when handling people's names.

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