Web-CAT Development Blog
This page contains a log of recent changes to Web-CAT. Many small changes aren't worthy of separate announcements on the Web-CAT-announce mailing list, but they are posted here for those who want to know a bit more about the "inner workings" of Web-CAT development.

Web-CAT blog resumes! PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 29 February 2008

I am resuming the Web-CAT development blog, and its about time! After a hiatus for over a year, I'll start regularly posting our development news once more. A lot has happened with Web-CAT in the intervening time, but there's too much to cover it all here. However, I will give you an overview of the highlights I'll be presenting at the Web-CAT User Group meeting at SIGCSE08.

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Web-CAT wins the Premier Award PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 30 October 2006

Web-CAT was selected as the winner of the 2006 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware, a national award that was established to recognize high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering education. The award was presented at the Frontiers in Education conference on October 31.

 
PMD checks for JUnit tests are working again PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 October 2006

The custom PMD checks in the default configuration for the Java TDD Plug-in stopped working at some point, due to a PMD version upgrade. These checks were written to flag test classes that do not contain any test methods, test methods that do not contain any assertions, or assertions that only depend on compile-time values. These checks have been restored in the Java TDD Plug-in's default PMD configuration file.

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