$7.00 U.S. INTERNATIONAL ® SSpecpecTHE MULTIVALUE TECHNOLOGYttrr MAGAZINumumE I NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2013 2 013 MultiValue Industry End-of-Year Recap Also in this Issue: Q&A: Rocket Purchases TigerLogic’s MV Products Taking the Offensive Automated Testing — Dependencies intl-spectrum.com GET CONNECTED. K NOWLEDGE AND E DUCATION FOR THE MULTIV ALUE PROFESSIONAL. A BOUT O UR PROFESSIONAL ME M BERSHIP S We are all busy in our day-to-day work and staying up-to-date with the current MultiValue technologies can be difficult. Professional Memberships provide you access to knowledge, solutions, information, and code that you won’t find in other locations. 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We had a Q&A access to data continued to increase. with Susie Siegesmund (Vice President and General Manager at We asked some of our MultiValue Rocket Software) about the purchase that International Spectrum partners to share with us some of wanted to share with the MultiValue Community. their accomplishments from this last year and what to look for in the next. Business Tech: The Offensive We all know what it feels like 10 when we are the target of untrue statements, misrepresentations, uninformed opinions, back-stabbing politics, and attacks on our competence. If you don’t, you’ve been lucky. Get out of IT and into a safer career, something like jungle warfare mercenary. For those of us for whom it is too late, the author offers some advice on dealing with the devils. BY CHARLES BAROUCH Automated Testing Part 5: Dependencies The DEPARTMENTS 16 previous article looked at techniques for refactoring legacy code to expose individual functional pieces for unit testing. Although unit From the Inside page 4 tests for individual routines is fairly straightforward, putting them all From the Press Room page 12 together and testing the whole can be challenging. The fifth article Clif Notes page 23 in this series examines some of the problems and techniques for handling these issues. BY BRIAN LEACH International Spectrum and MultiValue are registered trademarks of International Spectrum, Inc. All other registered trademarks are the property of the respective trademark holders. INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2013 u 3 INTERNATIONAL From the SpectrNOVEMumBER/DECEMBER 2013 NATHAN RECTOR Inside President CLIFTON OLIVER Editor Happy Holidays to all! With that in mind, we will be offering TRACEY RECTOR Layout It’s the end of the year, time to relax, many opportunities to talk with your enjoy family, give gifts, and time to fellow attendees, both at the confer- start planning for the year 2014. ence and after the conference. 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Informer 5.0 which will be a significant former User Conference (ICON) this year upgrade to the user interface and over- Q: What new features or services did in Myrtle Beach, SC. Our team welcomed all functionality of Informer. Entrinsik introduce in 2013? keynote speaker Mark Pick of Pick Cloud, 2. Expansion of the new Enrole software. In 2013 Entrinsik released Informer ver- Inc. and special presenter Bill Harrison of Emphasis for the complete redesign sion 4.4. This newest version includes Epicom. The conference was well attended has been placed on ease of use, inte- a new set of visualizations for Informer by Informer customers and Partners and gration with third party software, and Dashboards as well as a host of new fea- included breakout sessions with members web-based portals including a dynamic tures including the ability to share reports of the Informer product development shopping cart, instructor and client and Meta tables among organizations us- team, panel discussions on best practices portals, and a barcode scanner check- ing similar databases.