Category Archives: software-engineering

Using Aspect-Oriented Programming for Security Engineering

Posted on 2010-06-24 by Graham

This paper by Kotrappa Sirbi and Prakash Jayanth Kulkarni (link goes to HTML abstract, full text PDF is free) discusses implementation of an application’s security requirements in Java using Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). We have AOP for Objective-C (of sorts), but … Continue reading →

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Template class for unit testing Core Data entities

Posted on 2010-06-13 by Graham

Some time ago, in a blog far, far, away, I wrote about unit-testing Core Data. Essentially, your test case class should create a temporary, in-memory Core Data stack in -setUp, and clean it up in -tearDown. Your test methods can … Continue reading →

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Configuring CruiseControl.rb in under an hour

Posted on 2010-06-12 by Graham

One of the changes I decided to make straight after NSConf MINI yesterday was to enable continuous integration for my projects. I had used CI before based on BuildBot, but that had left me less than impressed: It was really … Continue reading →

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