Warning: shameless self-promotion follows . . . For those of you who aren't members of USENIX, the April issue [1] of ";login:" [2], USENIX's magazine/journal, has an article [3] on "Software Testing for Sysadmin Programs." It's written by some guy who may or may not know what he's talking about but it addresses the issue of how to bring more software engineering discipline to system administration. Regardless of the author's credentials, he's made the article and associated examples [4] available for free. The article isn't very long (four pages) and the examples are fairly easy to understand. If you've ever had a program that worked but then broke when you tried to update it or add what seemed like a small feature, take a few moments to read the article and you may find that adding testing to your software development isn't as hard as you once thought.
If you find the article useful (or even just interesting), or if any of the other articles look like they might be interesting but you can't read them because you're not a USENIX member, you might consider joining USENIX because of articles like this one plus the ones every month by people like David Blank-Edelman and Andrew Seely. Adam [1] https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/apr15 [2] https://www.usenix.org/publications/login [3] http://menlo.com/tdd4sa/login_apr15_06_moskowitz.pdf [4] http://menlo.com/tdd4sa/ _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
