Beta 2 of our integrated unit testing extension is online now. We are hard at work to finalize the last features and hammer out all remaining bugs. Highlights of this release include:

• Based on EiffelStudio 6.1
• Simpler and more rubust way to create new manual test case
• Automated Execution and Extraction enabled by default
• Testing related windows visible by default

Dear all:

we have just released CDD (short for Contract Driven Development) for EiffelStudio Beta1. CDD brings full unit test support (including IDE integration) to EiffelStudio. It adds support for a novel kind of test cases, so called extracted test cases: when an exception is thrown it automatically creates a new test case which is able to reproduce the observed failure.

This seems to be an interesting read http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2552 . In short GC overhead seems to be acceptable by itself. In combination with virtual memory the GC cause a huge overhead because it constantly pages everything in. Conclusion: garbage collectors have to be aware of virtual memory.

Andreas