DDJ, February 2003
Testing & Debugging



FEATURES

Automated Defect Identification
by Kevin Smith
The techniques Kevin presents here help you quickly identify latent defects in C++ code—without extensive testing or simulation.

Testing Java Interfaces With JUnit
by Matt Albrecht
The GroboUtils JUnit Extension lets you write tests for inherited logic, leading to better maintainability and lower test-development costs.

C++ Stack Traces
by Noam Cohen
Collecting call stack data only when applications crash has limitations. The tool Noam presents here collects information in real time, thereby providing a context in which certain errors occur.

A Java-Based Music Player for MP3, Ogg, & WAV
by Sing Li
Here's a digital music player built around the JavaSound API that supports real-time decoding/playback of music in MP3, WAV, and Ogg Vorbis formats.

Bargain-Basement Parallelism
by Timothy Rolfe
The UNIX multiprocessing fork command lets you take advantage of underutilized processors in dual-processor computers.

A Report Generator for PC-Lint
by Jon Zyzyck
PC-Lint, from Gimpel Software, finds bugs, glitches, and other anomalies in C/C++ code. Jon's report generator reads in all PC-Lint messages and displays them sorted by message number.


EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Examining Windows CE .NET
by Martin Timmerman
Martin examines Windows CE .NET's thread handling and advanced interrupt handling capabilities, as well as its synchronization mechanisms and network stack performance.


COLUMNS

C Programming
by Al Stevens
Standard C++ added typename to solve semantic ambiguities introduced by the class template mechanism and to make template declarations more intuitive.

Embedded Space
by Ed Nisley
When it comes to wireless devices, antennas—and wavelength—matter.

Programmer's Bookshelf
by Gregory V. Wilson
Greg examines Debugging, by David J. Agans; Translucent Databases, by Peter Wayner; The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine, by Tom Standage; Network Security with OpenSSL, by John Viega, Matt Messier, and Pravir Chandra; and Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success, by Jim Sterne.


FORUM

Editorial
by Jonathan Erickson

Letters
by you

The New Adventures of Verity Stob
by Verity Stob

News & Views
by Shannon Cochran

Of Interest
by Della Song

Swaine's Flames
by Michael Swaine