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Alexey Popov

Alexey Popov leads a Java engineering team at Sun Microsystems, doing Compatibility Testing Suites for Java Micro Edition and testing tools since Embedded Java times.

 

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What is new in JT harness 4

Posted by alexeyp on September 7, 2007 at 2:25 PM EDT
Here I tried to give my classification of  new features available in the new major revision of the JT harness, that we recently completed .

BlackBox for the big Mobile

Posted by alexeyp on August 13, 2007 at 8:00 AM EDT
Nice article in Russian: http://www.ixbt.com/cm/blackbox.shtml

Briefly: there are two Sun BlackBox systems running in the world, one in Stanford, CA by Linear Accelerator Center and another one in Moscow by Mobil

Mobile JUnit and absence of reflection.

Posted by alexeyp on July 14, 2007 at 7:52 AM EDT

In classical JUnit you have multiple test methods in a single class that match some pattern, test framework iterates through these methods using relection. CLDC/MIDP does not have reflection API, this is one of problems that need to be solved when adopting JUnit-like test frameworks to CLDC/MIDP. 

ME application testing - MIDlet instantiation

Posted by alexeyp on July 8, 2007 at 6:09 AM EDT

The very common problem people meet when trying to unit-test their MIDlets is that you generally can not do something like this:

Simplest Test Suite built on ME Framework

Posted by alexeyp on May 14, 2007 at 10:40 PM EDT
This article is about some changes in the ME Framework that were made in response to the feedback that we got from early adopters and are available in the third development release of ME Framework 1.2 that Mikhail just an

Interactive Tests for Java ME

Posted by alexeyp on May 3, 2007 at 8:46 AM EDT
This article is about interactive testing for Java TM and its ME specifics. It describes types of interactive tests that are being developed for Java Technology Compatibility Kits, testing of what functionality requires user interaction.

One of the First Java Applications

Posted by alexeyp on April 10, 2007 at 2:58 AM EDT
Curious how much Java is a test-driven technology ?

Few words for a background.

The Java TM Compatibility Kit (JCK) is a test suite, used to verify if the Java standard is correctly implemented. The first JCK came out together with the first JDK from SUN, now this effort evolved into the industry-wide Java Community Process.

Testing session at Java ME track at SUN TechDays, Saint Petersburg

Posted by alexeyp on April 1, 2007 at 2:37 AM EDT
If you speak Russian, check the agenda and descriptions of Java ME sessions.

Test Harness and Test Format

Posted by alexeyp on March 26, 2007 at 1:58 PM EDT
It is true that the most popular test format supported by many Java TM IDEs is JUnit and its variations like TestNG or J2MEUnit. Interested to compare JavaTest TM harness and JUnit ?

JavaTest is a test h

Debugging II - Hangups at Device Side

Posted by alexeyp on March 1, 2007 at 2:06 PM EST
As a follow up to the past article about Debugging with ME Framework, here is the the guest post from Alexander Alexeev (aka Skavas) on the new feature he has integrated into the ME Framework, the Interactive MIDlet agent.