Archiv für August, 2009

Howto: Android Unit Test Bootstrapping in Eclipse

Today we run in some trouble, while trying to “run” our test suites against our android code. So here is a short howto run your tests in eclipse. As example we are going to use the APIDemo tests…

1. Import API Demos to eclipse:
New -> AndroidProject -> Create Project from existing source -> Location: <android-sdk>/platforms/android-1.5/samples/ApiDemos/

2. Test code in APIDemo project:
Take a look at the tests folder in APIDemos android project. The whole test code for APIDemos is located in there.

DOS Attack on Twitter (Social Networking Sites)??

Twitter is down for more then 50 minutes now and users on Tech Crunch also claim that some Facebook services are down. Twitter just posted this on there status site:

“Site is down
We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.

Update: we are defending against a denial-of-service attack.”

Facebook works for me but it seems like a serious DOS-Attack at least on twitter. Let’s wait and see what will happen…