Media Coverage
Various publications have indicated the value of Agitar's Java unit testing solutions, as evidenced by this sampling of articles.
The Economist: Software that Makes Software Better
Programmers are using a variety of software tools to help them produce better code and keep bugs at bay.
Dr. Dobb's Report: JUnit: Happy Birthday
JUnit celebrated its 10th anniversary and a report by Evans Data showed increasing usage of it by Java developers worldwide.
Artima Developer: Alberto Savoia on Testing the Untestable
Agitar's Alberto Savoia talks about key challenges in testing legacy code, and describes the new mock object technology in Agitar's latest testing tool.
Software Test & Performance: How to Train Your Team for Unit Testing
Jeffrey Fredrick of Agitar says that when it comes to adoption of new testing methods, it takes patience, planning, and pacing.
Artima Developer: Testing Karma
Agitar founder Alberto Savoia talks about JUnitFactory, testing karma, and Testivus, a newly-discovered collection of epigraphs from an ancient software start-up.
Dr. Dobb's Portal: Are You Immune to Test Infection?
Alberto Savoia, cofounder and CTO of Agitar Software, discusses why developer testing is still the exception and not the rule.
InfoQ: 100% Test Coverage?
Alberto Savoia's "Testivus" comments on how much testing is enough.
Software Test & Performance: Get Continuous Integration Into Your Head
Jeffrey Fredrick of Agitar says that adopting continuous integration helps you tackle problems as they arise, while they're still fresh in your mind.
Binstock on Software: How Many Unit Tests are Enough?
Andrew Binstock talks with Agitar folks about how many unit tests are sufficient to reach the level of "well-tested code.
Artima Developer: Testivus - Testing For The Rest Of Us
In this article by Alberto Savoia, he discusses Testivus, a proposed developer testing movement that's easier to embrace than more demanding developer testing movements such as Test Driven Development.
Better Software: From Primitive to Prominent
Alberto Savoia discusses the past, present, and future of automated code analysis.
Dr. Dobb's Journal: Good Enough Knowledge of Software Quality
Code coverage, defect rate, and risk paint a fairly accurate view of the quality of a company's software-development process.
InfoQ: Interview with Alberto Savoia on AgitarOne
Agitar founder and CTO discusses AgitarOne, Agitar’s new automated JUnit generation product.
Software Test & Performance: Getting The Most Out Of Unit Tests
Jerry Rudisin, CEO of Agitar Software, discusses how to increase the value of unit testing. Software development organizations that follow these practices will see meaningful improvement in the quality of their deliverables.
SD Times: Search and Destroy
If your organization is still using an antiquated bug-tracking system, such as an in-house FileMaker database or a massive Excel spreadsheet, it's time to upgrade.
Reg Developer: XP architectures: grown not given
Architecture is sometimes seen as the Achilles heel of eXtreme Programming (XP), but Kent Beck disagrees.
The Register: Rules of Thumb (sometimes) considered harmful
It is worthwhile questioning your favourite rules of thumb occasionally - when (or if) you have a spare moment. Take the one that says, "Never test your own work". It makes some sense, because errors in your understanding of the program spec or the way the business works may well be reflected in your tests, just as much as they are in your code.
The Register: Open-source projects get free checkup by automated tools
More open-source software projects are gaining the benefits of the latest code-checking software, as the programs' makers look to prove their worth.
TechNewsWorld: Can software kill you?
If you test each module before the entire code is run, you improve the chances of no failure by a factor of 10 or more.