I'm giving a presentation on refactoring Python. I'd like to put in a couple of slides giving statistics to show that refactoring is a good thing. I've been searching the ACM digital library, but it's a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack. Does anyone know of any statistics on the subject of refactoring in regards to productiv...
We are currently planning a quality improvement exercise and i would like to target the most commonly edited files in our clearcase vobs. Since we have just been through a bug fixing phase the most commonly edited files should give a good indication of where the most bug prone code is, and therefore the most in need of quality improvment...
Hello, I am looking for qa tools for php. I am used to pmd, findbugs and checkstyle in the java world. Do you know some similar tools for php doing code analysis ? So far I have found but not tested yet : phplint pmd's cpd module PHP_CodeSniffer Thanks in advance for your help ...
I'm populating a ListView with items and add images from an ImageList (in the designer). The images, however, are displayed in very poor quality, even though I've set the image size in the ImageList to their original size (16x16). Have a look: The original images are beautiful, sharp PNG icons. What can I do? ...
Hi there! I'm beginner with Flex and I already have a hard task to develop, so I could use some help! :) What I have to do is upload some images to a server, which is OK, but before uploading I must downsize this images by reducing their quality and width/height. I've found many information about the class JPGEncoder, but I couldn't ma...
Hi All, I have two problems that I have no idea how to fix... Flex. I have a canvas which contains a single myComponentA. A myComponentA contains a MyComponentB. The myComponentB contains a number of myComponentA's giving a tree structure...Ok so far. The structure is stored as an XML file. 1) When I load a big (60 or so components)...
I am looking for a good open source bot to determine some quality, often required for google indexing. For example find duplicate titles invalid links ( jspider do this, and I think a lot more will do this) exactly the same page, but different urls etc, where etc equals google quality reqs. ...
During QA process we usually need to describe a sequence of actions, that causes some bugs. Usually the best way to do it is describe a situation by text messages. Sometimes screen-shots are helps. But i believe that video or slide-show should to help QA team and should to reduce time loss on QA-team - developers iterations. Some time ...
Hi, For iPhone game development, I switched from PNG format to PVRTC format for the sake of performance. But PVRTC compression is ruining the quality of the images.. I am using spritesheets with transparencies for the character animations.. and the pvrtc makes the edges look muddy around the character near the transparencies. I read th...
Hi, Even there are some coding conventions in a software development team, if there are more than 7-8 people coding on the same solution, who or what mechanism assures the standardizing and keeping the quality of the code? How do they handle this in large projects, so that when a new programmer joins the team won't feel like Alice in ...
The goal of IDEs is increase productivity. They do a great job at that. Refactoring, navigation, inline documentation, auto completion help increase productivity immensely. But: Every tool is a weapon. The very same IDE helps to produce chunk code. Some IDE features are an invitation to produce bad code: code generation, code formatting...
Hi, I'm currently working on algorithm for denoising images. I need to compare my algorithm with other, existing algorithms, but to do so I need a good quality measure. The main goal for such measure is to be close to human perception skills. I know, that it is almost impossible, but there are good perceptual measures for audio signals....
I'm working on integrating bugzilla with Hp Qc .. i'm performing this by using perl script by directly manipulating database using sql commands.. I want to use the webservices of bugzilla. I have gone thru the bugzilla webservice Api but tat wasnt enough to get started. I'm a beginner and this is first project of my career . please guide...
Recently the security team on my project released a secure code guidelines document, designed to be used as part of our code reviews. The first thing that struck me was an item that said "Do not use Inner classes". I thought this seemed like a very heavy handed and sweeping statement. Inner classes are good if used correctly right?, but ...
This is really a two part question, since I don't fully understand how these things work just yet: My situation: I'm writing a web app which lets the user upload an image. My app then resizes to something displayable (eg: 640x480-ish) and saves the file for use later. My questions: Given an arbitrary JPEG file, is it possible to tell...
IDE misconfiguration is a big source of inefficient time use in our team. I wanted to know if other teams have tried to check the health of the eclipse workspace with continuous integration. Eclipse is open source and extensible, and most (all?) of its files are in xml. So it should not be difficult to add a step to continuous integrati...
I wanted to try and install XStudio, but i wanted to see the pro's and con's of choosing the opensource XQual Studio project over Quality Center. thanks ...
I am working on an Android app that displays photos which are downloaded from Flickr. I obtain a bitmap object from a byte array, which in turn is read from the relevant Flickr URL, as follows: BitmapFactory.Options opt = new BitmapFactory.Options(); opt.inDither = true; opt.inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888; Bitmap bitmap = B...
Hi, I am working on some business intelligence reports these days. The data is fetched by ordinary SQL SELECT statements. The statements are getting more and more complex. The data I want to report is partially business critical. So I would feel better, if I could do something to proof the correctness and quality of the SQL statements...
hi, our testers have the requirement to store multiple properties for a test that are not present in the "properties". e.g. they want to store priority, a description(not in the wiki page itself) and so on. they don't want to use the tagging mechanism. is there a way to store any kind of new xml node in the properties.xml for a test?...