Unit Testing: EAMSte...

EAMSteps is a framework that makes Unit Testing easier because of its following principles: - External data store for test data like excel spreadsheet - Automated assertions using co-related inputs and outputs - Minimal lines of code to get started It all started in 2009, when I decided that in long term I would need to have a framework in place that will help me meet my objectives and I started to look for any existing tools. When I did not find any framework that would help me, I decided that it was time to write one and here after 2 years I have something breathing

Concurrency Pattern: Producer and Consumer Aug22

Concurrency Pattern: Producer and Consumer

In enterprise world, where performance holds the key to everything; the Concurrency patterns bring to table a very interesting and effective solution. One specific pattern Producer and Consumer allow us to write programs with high throughput and get the job done much quickly. This pattern provides us a solution for a common problem where we have to migrate data form System 1 to System 2 and in the process we need to do three tasks: Load data from Database based on groups, Process and Update the records back