DATAWORKS BLOG
A RESTful Approach to Web Services
We are going to give a quick overview of REST as a development style for web applications. The phrase REST (Representational State Transfer) was first coined as a pattern for developing web services in Roy Fielding’s doctorate in 2000. This paper followed on from his earlier work in the standardisation of the HTTP protocol. REST is a resource oriented approach to accessing web services where the resource being accessed exposes various representations…
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Automated Web UI Testing
WatiN (which is pronounced “what-in”) is an open source framework for web application testing in .NET. It supports both Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. The major difference between WatiN and a lot of other web automation tools is that rather than recording the screen interactions with the web browser (saving as a macro or similar) and allowing them to be played back, WatiN integrates…
Agile Software Development in Regulated Environments
The adoption of agile software development methodologies has been a development that Dataworks have watched with particular interest. Agile has gained wide acceptance in various domains within software development and this is being reflected with some of our customers. The advantages include higher quality code, greater efficiency and greater agility in reacting to changing requirements.…