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Dasha Zhukova, the patron of the not-for-profit Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, has announced plans to move the institution to the city's Gorky Park at a press conference held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. The new gallery is due to open by 2013. The architect Rem Koolhaas, who will design the new Garage Gorky Park, unveiled the plans in detail at the event. Zhukova declined to discuss the project's budget or its funders.
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Zhukova said that the institution will function like a kunsthalle and said that it was a particular dream of hers to put on a Richard Serra exhibition. She also said she wants to use the new space to promote emerging Russian and international artists. This is a change in her original plan for the institution. In 2010, she told The New York Times: "The next step that I'm really interested in is building a museum of contemporary art in Moscow with a permanent collection." Now she says there are no plans for a permanent collection. Meanwhile, her partner, the billionaire collector Roman Abramovic, owns work by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Alberto Giacometti.The Garage, which was once housed in the historic Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, designed by the Soviet constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov, opened in 2008. Exhibitions included a retrospective of the Russian expatriate artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov in 2008, and of Mark Rothko in 2010. It attracted more than one million visitors in four years. However, the lease has expired and Zhukova and her team wanted to move to a more central location in Moscow. Koolhaas's OMA architecture studio will now renovate a prefabricated concrete building that has been abandoned since the 1990s in Gorky Park. The Garage Gorky Park will be a modest 5,400 sq. m, but Koolhaas said this is a strength not a problem. "Art institutions are getting bigger and bigger, but scale is not necessarily always productive for art," Koolhaas said, citing The Serpentine Gallery, London, as a successful example of a smaller-sized institution. Garage Gorky Park will have two floors for exhibitions, including a large space on the ground floor for large installations and an auditorium. Soviet era decorations, tiles, bricks and murals will be preserved not just to "avoid the sterility of white", as Koolhaas put it, but also in an effort to integrate the country's history, art and architecture into the new vision of Russia that the institution wishes to present. However a pivoting wall system will allow certain works to be displayed against a white backdrop, should it be needed. The park, which was also designed by Melnikov, covers around 300 acres of space along the Muskva River, in the heart of the city. It is undergoing a major renovation project of which Garage Gorky Park is an integral part. There are also long-term plans to renovate an 8,500 sq. m hexagonal pavilion near the centre and use it for exhibitions, but it is currently too derelict to meet the 2013 deadline.
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As an artist myself I think this is a very interesting project, and will of course visit it when I travel to Moscow, and follow its exhibitions on internet.
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AUSTIN — The West Side is getting two new, high-profile residents later this month: the Rev. Al Sharpton Jr. and Martin Luther King III, civil rights leaders coming here temporarily to put a spotlight on the city's gun violence.
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Sharpton will rent an apartment on the West Side and commute from New York once a week for two to three months, according to Rachel Noerdlinger, a spokeswoman for the Baptist minister.
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Writing for Clarity
passive voice
Passive voice produces a sentence in which the subject receives an action. In contrast, active voice produces a sentence in which the subject performs an action. Passive voice often produces unclear, wordy sentences, whereas active voice produces generally clearer, more concise sentences. To change a sentence from passive to active voice, determine who or what performs the action, and use that person or thing as the subject of the sentence. Passive voice: "On April 19, 1775, arms were seized at Concord, precipitating the American Revolution." Active voice: "On April 19, 1775, British soldiers seized arms at Concord, precipitating the American Revolution."
SOURCE: Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center


text: Discipline is inculcated in every cadet as an integral part of this curriculum. Parade and drills along with hikes and treks are part of the routine. In order to maintain and nurture intellectual development, various industrial visits are arranged in consonance with the marine field. Cadets are encouraged to interact with their peers while presenting technical papers and attending symposiums on related issues and developments in the marine field. This helps the students to remain abreast with the latest developments in their respective fields. Ganesh Festival, Durga Puja, Holi are celebrated by the cadets in the hostel arranging various programmes, competitions to enhance their personal skills and organizing capabilities so as to bring up their personalities. National Maritime Day is also celebrated by arranging, lectures by the experts from the Marine Industries. Extra lectures are conducted for the cadets who are weak in the individual subjects. These lectures are arranged by our regular faculty when the failures exceed more than 30% in the end semester examinations. Blood Donation camp is conducted in house once in a year. This programme is in association with renowned Hospitals in Pune city around 3rd February of every Year. Extra Curricular activities:


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Title: Student Worker
Campus: Queens
Job ID: S01969-361W
Student Requested: College Work Study
Job Purpose: To assist the coach's/secretary of the Women's Basketball office with day to day operations. Must be willing to work during school breaks and over summer.
Job Responsibilities: Major duties and responsibilities –
• Assist with answering telephones, faxing, filing correspondence, running errands on campus, stuffing envelopes and making copies. • Greet office guests, answer questions and direct to the proper individual(s). • Data entry into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. • Other administrative duties or special projects as assigned.
Equipment Used:
• Computer, fax machine, photocopier, scanner.
Familiarity with the office equipment (photocopier, printers, fax machine). • Good computer skills Ex: Microsoft Word and Excel • Excellent communication skills and detail oriented. • The ability to handle confidential matters and to be professional. • Ability to work well with others. • Willingness to tackle new projects. • Ability to work between 10 – 15 hours per week • Ability to work during school breaks and over summer
Skill Development Areas:
• Listening, Customer Service, Multitasking, Communication, Intercultural proficiency,
Unusual Physical Demands: n/a
In addition to completing the online student application, interested students must send a copy of your resume to Elizabeth Sullivan at firstname.lastname@example.com
In compliance with Federal Work Study regulations, only students that have been awarded a work study grant are permitted to apply for this position.
Any resumes submitted for this position will not be considered if the student has not been awarded a work study grant for the semester.


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No specs on the projector. It was just announced that they where working on 4K laser projector. That's it.
Speculation - priceless
For everything else, there's MasterCard! :-)
No specs on the projector. It was just announced that they where working on 4K laser projector. That's it.
Speculation - priceless
For everything else, there's MasterCard! :-)
Well for what it's worth, I'll still go for the fact that Jim has stated that RED is a professional company, so I'll bet that anything shot on RED (either a R1, Epic or Scarlet, will look great through this projector. I would guess that it might be high end home user / low end professional. But I think Red knows that if they release something that is affordable, yet professional enough to Color grade on, then added that we can watch all our 5K footage / final films through a projector - they will sell a bucket load. Hell, I'd even put one in the edit bay, one in the sound mixing room and another..... Oh I'd take 4/5 straight away.
But hey....its mindless speculation :-)
For what its worth I tend to agree! But you know... what Red is doing is very interesting. I am sure Jim has his sights set on big things. Sure it started with One camera. But now we are getting Red Studios, Red Ranch, Red Ray (both home and pro) home laser projector... and lastly, Red just produced their first real short movie...
There are interesting things in the works in Orange County, I'll tell you that much :)
I think the entire concept behind RED RAY stands or falls with the fact if it plays DCPs or not.
Its a fact that theaters will not invest in two concurrent player systems. DCP is the defacto standart right now and so both the studios and the theaters will use DCP in the first place.
So the the only way to spread a new format to the theaters is by making a player that plays DCPs and the new format (RED RAY or whatever it will be called in the end) and does all this at an unbeatable price level.
Having a matching projector along makes just sense, but for theaters thats a totally different beast than a home system.
Anyhow, if RED RAY PRO does not play DCPs it'll be a niche product. If it plays DCPs, it will take the theaters by storm, for sure.
I was under the impression that Red Ray Pro not only plays DCP but also allows one to author DCP using the output to utilize something like the 4K Laser projector to proof the work. This I am very excited about as it will allow small independents to author their films in DCP and play them on the primary projectors in local theatres instead of having to premier their films on the screen door laden digitals typically available for local releases. Making this available at our local film Co-op will be able to make this service available to our members at an affordable price. We also have an Epic coming, can't wait!
I would agree and I am sure it will play DCP. It is interesting to read on the Red website the features for the RedRay:
"REDRAY™, the first choice for bringing RED into every home. Representing the ultimate in home theater playback and offering RGB HD, 2K and 4K playback to projector or panel through its consumer friendly HDMI connectors, REDRAY™ supports CF card and SSD media, USB-2, Firewire 800 and e-SATA. With 7.1 channel 24-bit audio and on-screen menu overlay, REDRAY™ will be the standard for digital cinema delivery in every environment."
That last statement would seem to indicate that this is just the start - "will be the standard for digital cinema delivery in every environment" - so I will go to say that I predict that RedRay will do DCP - at least for the Pro version.
As for the laser projection, I think if Red are going to these lengths to produce a 4K Laser Projector, then it will be the first version for "home cinema" - with maybe a cross over into post houses as a cost effective alternative to a Barco / Christie. My biggest hope is that it allows for color accurate grading so we can use it in a Red post workflow. Of course being able to view your hourlies on a Red 4K projector would be awesome, and viewing your final output on it would be great two. If it allows for the color accurate grading, then I would buy at least 4 - one for the editing room, grading room, sound mixing room and viewing theatre.
Guess we'll find out sometime in the future...
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High Priority Mail
Last week a letter reached me that had the announcement IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS on the envelope. When I eagerly tore open the letter, awaiting some life-changing documents inside, it turned out they were not. It is a common pattern: You all receive e-mails stating URGENT in the subject, but they're not. And how many e-mails are flagged "!" important — but they're not? When I judge the importance of a communication to me, its outward appearance is not the only thing I take into consideration, it is also very much the sender that counts. If I know the author to be trustworthy, based on my previous experiences with her, I tend to treat those messages as much more relevant than messages from an insurance company (that usually wants to sell more insurances) or from a business I never dealt with before.
An Intermediate Artifact
This thought crossed my mind when at the #lkce13, "the" David https://twitter.com/lkuceo stated that a prioritized backlog introduces an unnecessary proxy variable. Agreed, stakeholders and dev team are better off talking to each other instead of capturing conversations in an artifact with only the product owner talking to each of the sides. Also, a backlog may imply a commitment to a path, when in fact it might just show alternate future directions in which the product may involve.
Backlog for Focus
On the other hand, if you have n stakeholders and m developers, and every developer is to talk directly to every customer, you will have n * m conversations taking place. When the product owner acts as information hub, only n + m conversations take place, which might be the only feasible way.
Also, the product owner is supposed to act as the business value expert, condensing the multiple voices of the stakeholders, and even opening up new options. It makes sense to me to have a domain expert drive this and not spread accountability for priorities all over the team.
The third and final point brings me back to the story about the "important" letter: it is about trust. When the dev team trusts the product owner enough to make good decisions on priority, there is less urgency to discuss priorities directly with stakeholders. Maybe the PO has shown good judgment in the past. Or the decision process is transparent enough, showing that all relevant stakeholders are involved, that all sides have been taken into consideration. If you do not trust your product owner to make good priority decisions, you might need to ask why, and address that issue.
Trust the Product Owner
The backlog is not to be used as a contract artifact on paper, inhibiting face-to-face conversation and feedback loops. There is a balance to strike: The team needs to alternate between an opening, questioning stance involving all stakeholders, and a focusing, deciding stance where the product owner is responsible to narrow down all possibilities to a manageable number. The product owner is supposed to lead by reducing uncertainty about the future, providing clarity for the team. She can achieve this task better when all parties trust her decisions, based on her openness, her focus, and her commitment to the job. A prioritized backlog is a tool to achieve this, but it is abused when just used for written "THIS IS IMPORTANT" statements.
So, watch out for backlogs that are used to hide information like value, options, or risk, inhibiting collaboration. Make your backlog a dual-use tool both to start conversations and to provide focus.
In our last post, we discussed a method for quantitative user research. In contrast to the specific topic of the last post, this post gives pointers on how products with a great user experience (UX) can be achieved in the context of an agile development process.
Nowadays 84 % of software companies apply agile methods – yet, how the topic of how UX can be integrated into the process is the topic of ongoing discussions between UX professionals and with other stakeholders within the organization.
Recently, a number of blog posts about UX in different settings were written and caught my attention. As the area of UX – especially in the combination of agile development of enterprise software – is quickly developing, these articles are definitely worth reading if you are a UX professional (or if you work together with UX professionals). I thought this worth to sharing some pointers.
Blog-Post Reviews
A must-read is Aviva Rosenstein's article "The UX Professionals Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams", published on Boxes and Arrows. As the title says, the article is focused on the Scrum methodology (a popular framework for organizing agile development). The article discusses a survey about the challenges UX professionals face in Scrum and gives detailed practical advice on how these challenges can be addressed. In particular, the article discusses the problems faced in creating a UX vision when UX work is aligned strictly with the Scrum teams' sprints or brought in too late in the process. Among the suggestions are the creation of user personas (and using these personas in the user stories or scenarios) and including the team in the design process.
The article "Fitting Big-Picture UX Into Agile Development" by Damon Dimmick was published on Smashing Magazine. For me, the important ideas in this article are 1) the idea of including UX-focused sprints in the agile development process and 2) the idea of a design owner whose role is to foster design and ensure consistency.
Jon Innes post "Integrating UX into the Product Backlog" on Boxes and Arrows suggests a UX Integration Matrix that allows including UX efforts into a products backlog. Jon highlights the necessity of a good feedback loop for agile and UX work. I do love Jon's idea to estimate UX complexity using Fibonacci numbers and to use task completion rate as a metric for the usability of a UI implementation!
The article also discusses the cause for the (perceived) different value of UX in consumer-oriented vs. enterprise-oriented businesses. While an enterprise company makes money even if user's can not handle effectively leverage the software or by selling professional services to fix problems that occur, a consumer-oriented business cannot operate that way. I would add to this argument that the perception of the value of UX is shifting. Buyers increasingly understand that an efficient interface design saves time and money by generating more – and higher – quality output faster. As a consequence, even analysts with a technical focus are integrating usability efforts in their reviews of market offerings as an evaluation criteria. Therefore, the perception that UX is less important in enterprise-oriented businesses that in customer-oriented businesses is misleading.
Paul Bryan's text "Is UX Strategy Fundamentally Incompatible with Agile or Lean UX?" on UX Matters focuses on the field of UX strategy and its compatibility with agile. It discusses two approaches for fitting UX better into modern development processes: Lean UX and Agile UX. The author identifies three key questions are discussed around the agile UX topic: 1) participating in an agile team structure, 2) modifying UX activities and deliverables such that interdisciplinary work gets more effective, and 3) scheduling the timing of UX activities to more easily fit to the sprints of the development team. Especially with respect to the third topic, Paul Bryan offers a number of quotes discussing the importance to do UX strategy and planning before the development starts.
The compatibility of lean UX within large companies is discussed and the author concludes that "[t]hey are fundamentally incompatible". The reasons are is that "[t]he lean UX form of UX strategy is too lightweight, too reliant on small data sets, too malleable, and too subject to the assertiveness of a just few individuals. For a large company that has a deep understanding of its market, its customers, and its competition, and the resources to fund the best path forward, it's not the optimal approach."
An older but valuable post is Jeff Patton's "Twelve emerging best practices for adding UX work to Agile development" published on AgileProductDesign.com. Among the suggestions Jeff makes are the usage of low fidelity prototypes in communication and the use of prototypes as documentation.
While there is still a lot of uncertainty on how UX is best integrated in the agile development process, especially in large enterprises businesses, there are some factors that are beginning to clarify.
The answer to the question if UX resources should be part of the agile (e.g., Scrum) team or a central resource from my perspective largely depends on the structure of the organization: In smaller organizations and agencies, the need for holistic tasks and planning (e.g., developing a UX vision and a style guide) is smaller than in larger organizations with multiple product teams. Thus, allocating UX resources in the agile team is less problematic. In larger businesses, in which multiple development teams work towards a common goal, the necessity for holistic tasks is much larger. As it is hard to integrate such holistic long-term tasks into a sprint rhythm (mostly two weeks), in such a setting, having UX as a shared resource is more beneficial.
A very lean approach to UX with largely reduced deliverables might be just too lean for large enterprises. Still, communicating both with development teams and with decision makers to create a shared understanding and a common goal based on a visualization of the UX team's product vision is the most important key factor to success and is more important than highly polished deliverables.
Making the design and research process open and transparent also reduces or eliminates problems with the perception of the work of the UX staff. To be able to achieve an efficient communication, it is very important to establish working processes and a language that everybody understands. For example, by establishing design personas that both, product owners and UX designers use in their stories and scenarios (tip: Make your personas available in your intranet or wiki and allow that stories and scenarios can be linked to them!).
Interdisciplinary thinking is beneficial, too. It does not hurt if UX designers have an understanding of the technical concepts of the software product, but it also does not hurt if developers and other stakeholders take pen and paper to sketch their ideas in visual brainstorming sessions rather than staying in the abstract.
Having somebody fulfilling the role of a UX design owner seems to be especially important in a B2B (business-to-business) settings. Here, the results of having a bad UX are not as immediately visible as in B2C (business-to-customer) settings. And as such, it is more important that somebody advocates the importance of UX. A bad UX in a check-out process in an e-Commerce setting will immediately result in a smaller conversion rate and loss of customers and can straightforwardly be identified with methods such as A/B testing. In contrast, the results of a bad UX in B2B software are much less directly visible (this is not to say they are less drastic!).
… go to to Jochen Toppe and Jesco von Voss for review and valuable comments.
written by Kris Lohmann and Jörg Schäffer
Usability professionals have a variety of choices when it comes to picking a questionnaire to evaluate and measure the usability of a software product or a website in a quantitative manner.
A particularly often-used scale is the System Usability Scale (SUS). This scale was developed and made available by Brooke (1). The SUS consists of ten items. Ratings are performed on a 5-point scale on which 1 corresponds to "strongly disagree" and 5 to "strongly agree". The evaluation results in an easy-to-interpret score from 0 – 100, similar to a percentage score. This intuitive score is a definitive plus when communicating the results to stakeholder and the management.
Aside from being a de-facto standard, the SUS has some advantages over other scales. It is scientifically validated and has been shown to outperform other scales in the sense of validity (it measures what it is supposed to measure) and sensitivity (the result shows small changes) (2, 3, 10). The SUS has been shown to be reliable (that is, if a study is repeated, the same outcome is can be expected) (10).
The SUS is free, and has been used in a lot of usability evaluations. In the words of the original author: "… [B]ecause it was made freely available has been picked up and used in many, many usability evaluations. (Cheapskates! But I'm glad so many people have found it useful)." (4)
Meta-Studies allow for comparison with other systems, the average SUS score measured by Tullis and Albert is 66 (3). Furthermore, a study by Bangor and colleagues has shown which semantic label people associate to a given SUS score. For example, a score around 20 is associated to an "awful" system and about "90" to the "best imaginable" system (9). Due to the fact that it only has ten items, the SUS is lightweight and, thus, participants are quickly done with it.
Yet, the SUS has some drawbacks to be considered when it is used. To start with, the SUS focuses just on pragmatic quality. The hedonistic quality (5) is not really in the scope of the evaluation (though, we are not saying that hedonistic aspects do not influence the result!). Furthermore, there is no tested German translation of the scale available – this issue is addressed in this post.
German Translations of the System Usability Scale (SUS)
The original author made the scale available in English. It was not officially translated to German. Recently there have been approaches towards translation (6,7). The most notable result was based on crowdsourcing the translation (8). We at CoreMedia reviewed the results and decided to develop our own version based on these approaches as we were not completely happy with the wording. This is the solution that we came up with:
- Ich denke, dass ich dieses System gerne regelmäßig nutzen würde.
- Ich fand das System unnötig komplex.
- Ich denke, das System war leicht zu benutzen.
- Ich denke, ich würde die Unterstützung einer fachkundigen Person benötigen, um das System benutzen zu können.
- Ich fand, die verschiedenen Funktionen des Systems waren gut integriert.
- Ich halte das System für zu inkonsistent.
- Ich glaube, dass die meisten Menschen sehr schnell lernen würden, mit dem System umzugehen.
- Ich fand das System sehr umständlich zu benutzen.
- Ich fühlte mich bei der Nutzung des Systems sehr sicher.
- Ich musste viele Dinge lernen, bevor ich mit dem System arbeiten konnte.
Why should you prefer the suggested German translation of SUS over other ones? Our translated version of the SUS has been used in a comparably large on-site study with 89 participants. Overall, there were no indicators of problems.
Furthermore, there is an important difference to the version proposed in the crowdsourced translation (8). Item 10, which is formulated "I needed to learn a lot of things before I could get going with this system" in the original SUS, is translated to "Ich musste eine Menge lernen, bevor ich anfangen konnte das System zu verwenden." in the crowdsourced translation.
From our point of view, this solution is suboptimal: In contrast to the original English version, the translation does not put any focus on the users' goal. Therefore, we suggest a slightly different translation of this item, namely "Ich musste viele Dinge lernen, bevor ich mit dem System arbeiten konnte." This puts more focus on the user being able to accomplish a goal with the system. Thus, the semantics of the translation of this item is closer to the original item.
Some Practical Hints for Augmenting the SUS
We augmented the SUS in two respects:
First, we used two free text fields in which the participants were asked to indicate what they liked about the software and what they disliked about the software to obtain qualitative input in addition to the quantitative measurement. The results were really insightful, hence, if a study has a formative aspect (finding problems) in addition to the summative aspect (evaluating an existing solution), augmenting the SUS with free text items should be considered.
Second, we added some in-detail items to evaluate certain aspects of the the software that are not directly covered by the SUS (e.g., quality of icons, microcopy, and visual appeal). This augmentation provided additional valuable information, as well.
The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a lightweight and scientifically validated questionnaire and an effective tool to assess perceived usability. On the basis of existing attempts for a translation, we created an improved translation, which we successfully used in an on-site study with 89 participants.
As the SUS is a lightweight questionnaire with only 10 items, augmenting it with other items is unproblematic with respect to the time participants need to complete the questionnaire. Such an augmentation is suggested if a study has formative aspects and in circumstances when specific hypothesis need to be tested.
(1) Brooke, J.: SUS: A "quick and dirty" usability scale. In: Jordan, P. W., Thomas, B., Weerdmeester, B. A., McClelland (eds.) Usability Evaluation in Industry pp. 189—194. Taylor & Francis, London, UK (1996)
(2) A Comparison of Questionnaires for Assessing Website Usability
(3) Tullis and Albert: Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics. Morgan Kaufmann (2008)
(4) http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/5211/sus-scores-and-doubts
(5) http://www.flamelab.de/article/pragmatic-and-hedonic-quality-of-software-systems/
(6) http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/10181/what-is-the-standardized-german-version-of-the-system-usability-scale-sus
(7) http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/sus.asp
(8) http://isitjustme.de/2012/01/crowdsourcing-the-translation-of-sus/
(9) A Bangor, P Kortum, J Miller - Journal of usability studies (2009)
(10) Brooke: SUS: A Retrospective Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 29 – 40 (2013)
Did you ever stumble across unit tests which flood your temporary folder with a lot of temporary files? Perhaps even observing disk space problems because of this? This post will provide a Quick Fix for tests triggered during Maven Build.
Most tests requiring temporary files rely on java.io.File.createTempFile()
to create them. This will create a temporary file at a location defined by the system property java.io.tmpdir
which for example on Linux system points to /tmp
If tests (or their authors) would have been nice they had at least marked the file to be deleted on exit of JVM. But as experience shows (having currently tests at hand creating 70 MB of temporary files) not everyone is aware of this testiquette.
The best solution would be to refactor the tests and to force them to use the JUnit Rule TemporaryFolder instead. Gary Gregory has greatly described this in his post JUnit Tip: Use rules to manage temporary files and folders, 2010-01-20. It is also capable of not only creating temporary files but also folders.
But if you have masses of tests to adopt this is not appropriate – and it may not be the solution for all of your problems if it is not only the test creating temporary files but also the software under test (SUT).
To detect which files get created in the temporary folder the Linux tool iwatch was helpful to me. Through the following command line I could easily see which files got created:
$ iwatch -r -e create /tmp
If you are building your workspace through Apache Maven you most likely want to have the temporary files been placed into the target/
folder as this is also the folder which gets cleaned upon mvn clean
and is most likely also excluded from being commited to your version control system (VCS).
Maven runs the tests through the Maven Surefire Plugin. This can be configured to pass system properties to the JVM executing the tests. And you already might have guessed it: You can also set the property java.io.tmpdir
in here. My solution goes a little further: I also set the working directory for tests as some SUT and some tests also tend to write to the current directory.
Here is a template for how to configure the Surefire Plugin in your plugin management section:
<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.16</version> <configuration> <!-- ... --> <workingDirectory>${project.build.directory}</workingDirectory> <systemPropertyVariables> <java.io.tmpdir>${project.build.directory}</java.io.tmpdir> </systemPropertyVariables> </configuration> </plugin>
See Also
- Gary Gregory: JUnit Tip: Use rules to manage temporary files and folders, 2010-01-20
- stackoverflow: maven: change the directory in which tests are executed, 2011-07-18
- Oliver Lamy: Maven Surefire configuration for CI server, 2012-08-02
- Linux Tool iwatch
I recently blogged about the Legacy Code Kata at Softwerkskammer Hamburg Dojo. Now it's about time that the Kata passes the reality check. So I took some legacy code colleagues cursed about and started to write some tests strongly relying on mocking framework Mockito.
Mockito is great, …
Unlike the Coding Kata I relied on a mocking framework this time. It's my favorite one: Mockito. So simply I mocked a page and some navigation object like this:
page = Mockito.mock(Page.class); navigation = Mockito.mock(Navigation.class); Mockito.when(page.getNavigation()).thenReturn(navigation);
This mocking was required deep in the callstack of the class under test.
but… The Problem
If this code will ever be refactored (actually I know that it soon will be) it might happen that the mocked call is actually not called anymore which makes the assumptions invalid and thus the result of the test is completely meaningless.
The Recommended Solution
If you are ever in need to mock some method calls you should verify that they actually got called. As this is a check of the assumptions made I recommend to place this in front of your test-assertions (as they are meaningless when these checks fail):
Mockito.verify(page, VerificationModeFactory.times(1)) .getNavigation();
If this fails it is most likely that you have to adopt your test rather than adopt your code.
Note: times(1)
could have been skipped here as this is the default. For this example atLeastOnce()
would have been more appropriate as it is just important that the mocking got used – not how many times.
Side Note: AssertionError
What is bad (at least in this use case) is that Mockito.verify()
raises an assertion error if the verification fails. But an assertion error is perceived as signal that something is wrong with the code under test. It would be better to have a "normal" exception here which would mark the test as "error" rather than "failure" which is more appropriate here as the test did not fail – it just did not match the assumptions.
If you have a huge set of stubbed method calls as above you can easily convert a copy of it to a verification using this regular expression replacement:
From: when\(([^.]+)\.(.*(?=\)\.then)).* To: verify($1, atLeastOnce()).$2;
The above example assumes static import for atLeastOnce()
Yesterday I participated in the monthly SOKAHH meeting – this time we met for a Coding Dojo. The Kata we performed was a so called Legacy Code Kata authored originally by Sandro Mancuso as part of a conference talk: Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code.
What the Kata is about
The central class we were interested in this Kata is the class TripService. Of course untested following the definition of Legacy Code by Michael Feathers (Working Effectively with Legacy Code).
In the workspace we found an empty test stub waiting to be filled. Most obviously the central point of the Kata was to write the test.
Spoiler Warning! Some Results
I think it's most interesting to perform this Kata without knowing much more. For us it ended in a discussion on the different approaches we followed. So I recommend not to read on if you want to perform this Kata.
It was interesting to see different approaches to deal with TripService. Some started to read the TripService's code to understand it and to write a test matching their understanding of the code. Others tried the code, i. e. without reading the code but only the interface trying how it would work for example with null values.
The latter one was the approach taken by our pair. We didn't want to do much mocking or guessing what the code is about. So we just started a first test without actually knowing what will happen by calling the (one and only) method of TripService with the argument null. The result was an exception (no, not NullPointerException). We took this result as the intended behavior. So our first test stated that it expects the exception to be thrown. Actually this is the most central rule I learned about Legacy Code:
Whatever the behavior of the legacy code is – it is the intended one.
The last missing tests were added using Code Coverage to detect which parts of the code have not yet been covered by a test.
All of us learned about the code while testing. Derived from the statements in the discussion no one grasped the idea of the code at first glance when we started. But at the end some of us even dared to refactor the code in that way that it reflects what we had learned the code is about.
Feeling Familiar
Thoughts which came into my mind while doing the Kata were very familiar to me: "What the heck is this code about?" "We get an empty list as result of this test setup? I didn't expect that." Thus I recommend this Kata to everyone who has to deal with Legacy Code and I bet you will have some interesting insights.
I just had the problem that I knew that a colleague pushed a feature branch I want to check out. But I did not know the name of the feature branch. After a short reasearch I built a git command line using for-each-ref:
$ git for-each-ref \ --sort=-committerdate \ --format='%(refname) by %(authoremail)' \ --count=10 \ refs/heads refs/remotes
where refs/heads
is for local changes and refs/remotes
is for remote changes (obviously the last one would have been sufficient for my use-case).
I like the command that much that I added it to my .gitconfig
file as alias recent:
[alias] recent = for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(refname) by %(authoremail)' --count=10 refs/heads refs/remotes
For our JIRA issue tracking we have a custom field which holds IDs which shall be rendered as links when the issue is viewed. In here you will find a solution which uses JIRA's Announcement Banner to inject some JavaScript (based on jQuery) to do the rendering.
Starting Situation
- JIRA 5 (to be more specific: 5.0.6) installation.
Of course we might expect to require to update the solution as soon as we update JIRA as this is actually a hack. - There is a custom text field with ID 12345.
You can find the ID for example in the link to edit the custom field or in the HTML source when the field value is rendered. - Values of this text field are comma-separated numeric IDs.
- URL-Scheme to resolve IDs is:
Announcement Banner
The central code we use for rendering uses especially jQuery's ready()
-Handler and html()
- and text()
-function. In Jira jQuery is hidden in AJS Helper: AJS.$(…)
. Here is the actual code which does the job:
AJS.$(document).ready( function() { AJS.$("#customfield_12345-val").html( function(){ return AJS.$(this).text() .replace(/(\d+)/g, "<a href='http://lorem.ipsum/$1'>$1</a>"); } ); } );
As soon as we use the announcement banner to inject JavaScript you will note an empty box in JIRA UI which would hold the announcement banner. To suppress this empty box we adjust the style for class alertHeader
and add a note how to re-enable it if you really want to add an announcement.
Thus the complete announcement banner looks like this:
<!-- Hints: To add a banner: * Edit and uncomment the announcement at the bottom * Place the alertHeader-Style into comments so that it is not hidden anymore. * Choose if to make the announcement public or private. To remove a banner: * Place the announcement below in comments. * Uncomment the alertHeader style which actually hides it. * Set visibility level to Private. --> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- AJS.$(document).ready( function() { AJS.$("#customfield_12345-val").html( function(){ return AJS.$(this).text().replace( /(\d+)/g, "<a href='http://lorem.ipsum/$1'>$1</a>" ); } ); } ); //--> </script> <style type="text/css"> .alertHeader{display:none;} </style> <!-- <div style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;border:2px solid #CC0000;"> Place your Announcement Banner Text here... </div> -->
Some Notes
- As we actually wanted to link to Zendesk Issues we could have used the Zendesk plugin. But the plugin did not match our use-case.
- In a previous JIRA installation we used a two-custom-field approach: One custom field to hold the value when editing and another custom field which renders the value of the first one in view mode (using Velocity). Since our JIRA update from JIRA 4 we did not have this option anymore – and regarding administration efforts (field configurations, schemes etc.) the approach mentioned above is much easier to maintain.
The following links helped me developing the small piece of code:
When moving a service that gathers data from a 3rd party system to a hosted non-GUI system (e.g., AWS EC2) you may need to enable access to the 3rd party system from that non-GUI system by responding to a CAPTCHA challenge.
The problem is that your 3rd party service provider will recognize attempts to log into your account from a new location and may protect your account by presenting a CAPTCHA challenge.
CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". Common challenges are images containing blurry letters which can be read by humans but cannot be extracted by today's image processing algorithms. So there is no way of scripting a response to the challenge. Human interaction is required at some point.
If the shell is all you can use, you can of course access the login page of your 3rd party system, e.g., using wget
, but remember that each login request will get a new challenge and will only be granted if the response to the challenge is the right one. So you'll better use a text browser but then you will still be unable to view the image that you're supposed to decipher.
Lynx can be configured to use an external image viewer by editing lynx.cfg. If you don't find lynx.cfg on your system, just create your own (or download one) and pass it to lynx using the -cfg
command line option. On our system, the image viewer xv was configured:
XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND:xv %s
The trick is now to replace xv
with a command line tool that helps you to finally see the image. I used scp (using SSH public key authentication) to copy the image file to my local machine so that I was able to use my favorite image viewer to read the text.
You could also print the image or email it to someone who will then read the image's text aloud when you call him. Anyway, once you got the image to another device, you're nearly done.
Lynx and scp can be combined to help you to respond to CAPTCHA challenges. The approach outlined here works for graphical challenges but can also be used for auditive challenges as long as there's any chance to download the audio file or to capture the stream.
This is a response to a blog post by Matt Wynne: Death to sleeps! (2013-06-03). It is actually a great summary of problems we observed in our automated Selenium-WebDriver Tests and I do not get tired repeating the great BDD-step which Matt also observed: "And I wait for 3 seconds" – yes, I found that one many times!
The solution we have found is Java-based and derived from the ExpectedCondition and its factory ExpectedConditions available in Selenium WebDriver. But we were in need of a much broader approach as we not only wait for WebElement's to appear but also for documents indexed in the search-engine. So let's extend Matt's example:
Given I am on the google homepage And Wikipedia Page for Matt Damon is indexed // inserted When I type "matt" into the search box Then I should see a list of results And the wikipedia page for Matt Damon should be the top result
with And Wikipedia Page for Matt Damon is indexed implemented like:
assuming that we have direct access to the search engine and the step Then I should see a list of results implemented like:
resultPage.getList().visible().waitUntilTrue(); resultPage.getList().length().assertThat(greaterThan(0));
where resultPage
and the returned list are wrapper objects for UI-elements and length()
and visible()
return what we call a condition.
The general concept can be found in this outline:
Actually we have three responsibilities in this pattern:
- Expression: knows how to query the System Under Test (SUT) for a certain value
- Matcher: (see Hamcrest) will decide if a returned value matches expectations or not
- Condition: is responsible for repeating the whole process and eventually end with a timeout if expectations were not met in time
Having the conditions we were also able to identify and fix another problem: If we poll the SUT too often it might not even been able to process its update loops. We observed these for search-machines which we polled to often. Olaf Kummer described this problem and the solution in Haste makes waste.
Important about the whole concept of Expression and Condition was a clear contract how the Expression could send a signal to the condition if it assumes that a re-evaluation will lead to a better result or not. So we identified three termination paths illustrated here:
So the Expression might end in three ways:
- returning a value: the Condition will ask the Matcher if this is what we waited for
- ExpressionEvaluationException: the contract says that this signals that the Expression expects that a second query might be successful; this for example wraps ElementNotFound-Exceptions.
- any other Exception: will tell the Condition to not ask again; a severe error got observed
And the Condition also might end in three ways:
- Timeout: the value did not match in a given time or we always only get the ExpressionEvaluationException
- Exception: any other exception raised by the Expression
- Matched: signals that the assertion (in JUnit-context) passed
Experience shows that this approach got well accepted by our developers and Thread.sleeps()
are gone nowadays – especially since we also solved the problem how to wait for "something not to happen" like "the error dialog should not pop up". If you are interested in this approach read on here: The Calm after the Storm – also by Olaf Kummer.
I presented our solution on the XP-Days 2012 in a session "UI-Tests which are fun". Find the slides (in German though) in my blogpost from November last year.
If you are interested in the implementation you can find it in Joala on GitHub, more specifically in the conditions-module.


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Study of BMS-936558 vs. Dacarbazine in Untreated, Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma (CheckMate 066)
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The purpose of this study is to compare the clinical benefit, as measured by duration of overall survival, of BMS-936558 vs. Dacarbazine in subjects with previously untreated, unresectable or metastatic melanoma
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Melanoma |
Biological: BMS-936558 (Nivolumab) Biological: Placebo matching BMS-936558 (Nivolumab) Drug: Dacarbazine Drug: Placebo matching Dacarbazine |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind Study of BMS-936558 vs Dacarbazine in Subjects With Previously Untreated, Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma |
- Endpoint of Overall survival (OS) [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]OS is defined as the time between the date of randomization and the date of death. For subjects without documentation of death, OS will be censored on the last date the subject was known to be alive
- Progression-free survival (PFS) [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]PFS is defined as the time from randomization to the date of the first documented progression, as determined by the investigator, or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first
- Objective Response Rate (ORR) [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]ORR is defined as the number of subjects with a Best Overall Response (BOR) of Complete Response (CR) or Partial response (PR) divided by the number of randomized subjects for each treatment arm
- Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression as predictive biomarker [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]PD-L1 expression as measured by the endpoint OS based on PD-L1 expression level
- Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
HRQoL as measured by mean changes from baseline in the EORTC-QLQ-C30 global health status/QoL composite scale and by mean changes from baseline in the remaining EORTC QLQ-C30 scales in all randomized subjects;
EORTC-QLQ-C30 = European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - Quality of Life Questionnaire - Core 30
Estimated Enrollment: | 410 |
Study Start Date: | January 2013 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | September 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | September 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Arm A: BMS-936558(Nivolumab) with Placebo matching Dacarbazine
BMS-936558 (Nivolumab) 3 mg/kg Solution for injection, Intravenous (IV), Every 2 weeks with Placebo matching Dacarbazine 0mg/m² Solution for injection, IV, Every 3 weeks, Until documented disease progression, discontinuation due to toxicity, withdrawal of consent or the study ends
Biological: BMS-936558 (Nivolumab) Drug: Placebo matching Dacarbazine |
Active Comparator: Arm B: Dacarbazine with Placebo matching BMS-936558(Nivolumab)
Dacarbazine 1000mg/m² Solution for injection, IV, Every 3 weeks with Placebo matching BMS-936558 (Nivolumab) 0 mg/kg Solution for injection, Intravenous (IV), Every 2 weeks, Until documented disease progression, discontinuation due to toxicity, withdrawal of consent or the study ends
Biological: Placebo matching BMS-936558 (Nivolumab) Drug: Dacarbazine |
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
For additional information, please contact the BMS oncology clinical trial information service at 855-216-0126 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Please visit www.BMSStudyConnect.com for more information on clinical trial participation.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Men and women ≥ 18 years of age
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0 or 1
- Untreated, histologically confirmed unresectable Stage III or Stage IV melanoma, as per AJCC staging system
- Measurable disease as per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1
- Tumor tissue from an unresectable or metastatic site of disease must be provided for biomarker analyses
- Known BRAF wild-type as per regionally acceptable V600 mutational status testing. BRAF mutant subjects and those with indeterminate or unknown BRAF status are not permitted to randomize
Exclusion Criteria:
- Active brain metastases or leptomeningeal metastases
- Ocular melanoma
- Any active, known or suspected autoimmune disease
Contact: For participation information at a USA site use a phone number below. For site information outside the USA please email: | email@example.com | |
Contact: First line of email MUST contain NCT# & Site#. Only trial sites that are recruiting have contact information at this time. |
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Study Director: | Bristol-Myers Squibb | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
Additional Information:
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Responsible Party: | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01721772 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | CA209-066, 2012‐003718‐16 |
Study First Received: | November 2, 2012 |
Last Updated: | November 28, 2013 |
Health Authority: | United States: Food and Drug Administration Argentina: Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica Australia: Department of Health and Ageing Therapeutic Goods Administration Austria: Federal Office for Safety in Health Care Belgium: The Federal Public Service (FPS) Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment Canada: Health Canada Denmark: Danish Dataprotection Agency Finland: Laakelaitos France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis) Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices Ireland: Irish Medicines Board Italy: Ministry of Health Israel: Israeli Health Ministry Pharmaceutical Administration Mexico: Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks Netherlands: The Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (CCMO) Norway: Data Inspectorate Directorate for Health and Social Affairs Poland: National Institute of Medicines Spain: Spanish Agency of Medicines Sweden: Medical Products Agency Switzerland: Swissmedic United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Melanoma Neuroendocrine Tumors Neuroectodermal Tumors Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue Nevi and Melanomas |
Dacarbazine Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating Alkylating Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Pharmacologic Actions Antineoplastic Agents Therapeutic Uses |
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....Even if you are the only one assigned to be 'keeping' the Circle, know that your Circle will be more effective, if you view every person in the Circle as your co-keeper. I say things like "everyone is both teacher and student". We honor the equal worth of every person, by having that respect and showing it to each person. That plays out into Circles where each person feels and experiences personal growth.


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The Focus on the Family founder's departure marks an end of an era for the Christian right.
The Focus on the Family founder seems to be urging evangelicals back to an era of marginalization.
Focus on the Family founder tells listeners that, politically speaking, "there is nothing you can do."
The never-ending pageant rolls on.
The group is opening an office in D.C. for the first time.
Dobson's Colorado ministry is mostly apolitical, which is what makes it so politically effective.
The founder of the evangelical ministry became the organization's biggest asset—and biggest liability.
The group had a chance for interfaith bridge-building.
His invitations to Rick Warren and James Dobson mean it's hard to paint him as a lefty bogeyman.
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- (8th century bc), Greek epic poet. He is traditionally held to be the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, although modern scholarship has revealed the place of the Homeric poems in a preliterate oral tradition. In later antiquity, Homer was regarded as the greatest poet, and his poems were constantly used as a model and source by others.


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-- and I defected to the today.
Our earlier today I appeared on the view and as usual I was outnumbered by people who see life differently than me.
A new wrinkle Tom Arnold was on a program apparently Friday is man day on the view the main topic the guns.
Trying to redefine the issue number one.
Desire to get through congress so that -- of happens is wrong not because these too many people in the house and on an incision has Seneca into.
And I think it's -- A state issue I think New York State this week passed a very tough.
Anti gun law ban assault rivals as -- -- -- Marlins are different situation is a different situation in Texas than it is in New York setting the stage -- -- do -- well run.
Well yeah it's a different situation you live inning in a rural area down by the Mexican border you need tomorrow firepower Americans the president should have done -- -- think this could have been -- Should be a sabres -- Something that they -- Playing pain I have I'm not an -- on that visits to please the audience out of business to solve the trial I'm glad I have a little bit about zero dark thirty and it was a movie about the capture of Osama bin Laden.
And this movie was nominated for best picture.
Kathryn Bigelow who directed.
Zero dark thirty was not nominated.
And you got some people saying that she was snubbed because she presented torture in the movie she did write an article that said.
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Put on the screen what's reality and if that is the case then there's nothing -- you -- -- right.
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And I think this is what you -- So here's a tip when ever whenever you are confronted by people who don't see things being excuse me.
The way that you see them.
Standing your ground.
But -- -- in a way that's witty don't get upset.
Keep your cool.
If you do that.
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