Using the -finstrument-functions option in GNU GCC to trace and profile code.
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Selenium Gets Some Sauce for Open Source Testing
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As increasing numbers of applications move online, the need for functional cross-browser testing continues to grow, which is good news for the open source Selenium project - a popular automated application testing tool with nearly 3 million downloads to date.
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Testing Out Linux File-Systems On A USB Flash Drive
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In past articles we have delivered plenty of file-system benchmarks from testing out EXT4 to Btrfs to NILFS2. One area though where we have not published any file-system benchmarks is for USB flash drives.
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Phoronix Test Suite 2.0, PTS Desktop Live 2009.3 Released
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Phoronix Media has released version 2.0 (codenamed "Sandtorg") of the Phoronix Test Suite, which encompasses hundreds of updates to its flagship testing and performance profiling software.
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Equilibrium in free software testing
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When a bug is filed in a free software project’s bug tracker, a social exchange takes place. Based on the belief that this exchange is of mutual benefit, the people involved form certain expectations of each other.
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Fedora 10 preview release shines like a star
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The Fedora developers have announced the availability of the Fedora 10 Preview Release, the last prerelease prior to the final launch. This version is reasonably robust and is suitable for testing.
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Lenny frozen
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"Hi, We just edited our hint files, so that all packages now need human review in order to go to testing. Hmm, that sounds too cryptic. Let's try again: Lenny is now frozen! Wheeeeeee!!! Thanks are due to everyone who has helped get us to this point [...] Now to explain what, exactly, we mean by 'freeze'..."
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Inquisitor 3.0 released
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Inquisitor is a mature hardware diagnostics, stress testing, certification and monitoring platform, running on GNU/Linux. It's
suitable for both enterprise and home use, customizable, modular and
available in standalone version, server-controlled network boot production system and serverless Live CD format.
Debian Installer Lenny Beta 1 released
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"The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Installer. This is the first release since Etch and the whole team has been hard at work during the past 11 months to make this release full of new features and bugfixes. We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it..."
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Farmer gives low-cost laptop a proper field test
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FROM his hot, dusty, locust-plagued property in the NSW outback, a software engineer who goes by the name Quozl is doing his bit to help educate 1.5 billion of the world's poorest children.
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Firefox 3 Beta 2 now available for download
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"...Firefox 3 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the tenth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso..."
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Second Release Candidate for GIMP 2.4
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"GIMP 2.4.0-RC2 is finally there. The developers have fixed quite some bugs since RC1 but it's not the final thing yet."
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Fuzz testing with zzuf
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Fuzz testing, which uses random input to test software for bugs, has been the biggest thing to happen in IT security in quite awhile. Now you can quickly and easily direct your own fuzz testing ops, thanks to a cool little program called zzuf.
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