Data binding is an important feature in Visual Studio web testing. It allows you to test a web app against random, sequential, or unique iterations of a set of test data. This allows more complete and comprehensive tests as opposed to running the same static test data through the web app on every single iteration [...]
About a week or 2 ago, Justin Silverstone posted an article on his blog, “10 tips for optimizing mysql queries“. While not an expert list, the points hold true, however small the points may be. This was posted on digg.com and it was promoted to the front page. A few days later, someone by the [...]
A shallow copy of an object copies all of the member field values. This works well if the fields are values, but may not be what you want for fields that point to dynamically allocated memory. The pointer will be copied. but the memory it points to will not be copied — the field in [...]
I use MySQL a lot and when designing queries, I use the EXPLAIN keyword to help optimize performance. This can be done at any MySQL command prompt. However, it is not so easy in Oracle I am finding out. One drawback is that you need to use the SQL Plus client, as other Oracle command [...]
In case anyone else is having this problem and cannot find a solution: I just created a new unit testing project with Visual Studio, using C#. The skeleton program it creates looks simple enough. The skeleton code that was generated for me has these 4 namespace includes: using System; using System.Text; using System.Collections.Generic; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting; [...]