Archive for August 27, 2007

Monday, August 27, 2007

A Brief History of Test Frameworks

Andrew Shebanow:

And of course, the Pink project was all about building object-oriented frameworks. So we decided we needed a framework for unit testing. At the time I did some research to see if anyone else had done something similar, but this was back in the days before search engines and I didn’t really find anything.

Cocoa Microbenchmarks

Mike Ash:

We all know that premature optimization is the root of all evil. But a recent conversation brought to mind that we often don’t really know the runtime costs of the code we write. While we should be writing foremost for correctness and clarity, having an idea of these speeds is good, especially when we get it into our heads that some operation is much more costly than it really is. With that in mind, I compiled a list of common Cocoa operations and how much time they require at runtime.