MATLAB is an open and extensible platform unique in its ability to dovetail with best-in-class technologies. Open, refers to the fact that much of MATLAB functionality is shipped in MATLAB files whose source can be studied. The community driven contributions on File Exchange has grown over the years to a scale that rivals the code that ships on the DVD. Extensible, refers to MATLAB's ability to integrate with other languages and technology stacks.... read more >>

Today I wanted to share some fun I've been having with customizing the emails sent from my Jenkins builds. This was inspired by Narendra's comment on a previous post. So, getting to it, I took a quick look after reading the comment and found the Email-ext plugin that enables customization of the emails that are sent to administrators and code committers (offenders?) for failing or unstable builds. Out of the box, this plugin sends an email that lists the failing tests that were encountered. While this is nice, it doesn't pass muster in my book. Why? ... read more >>

Goodness time flies! It has been a while since we've had a blog update, While I really would like to keep the conversation we have going on here moving, this is how I would like you to envision what I have been up to recently:... read more >>

Ajay Puvvala is my friend and colleague at the MathWorks. He also led the development of the TestTags feature we spoke about last post.Ajay, as per usual, made a great comment after last week's... read more >>

I have found that with any reasonably sized software project, sooner or later organization becomes important. As additional features and capabilities are introduced into a toolbox it becomes... read more >>

Andy: Today I'd like to introduce a fellow MathWorker with whom I will be tag teaming for content on this blog. His name is Arvind Hosagrahara and he is a principal technical consultant in the... read more >>

I once faced a question from a friend who was perusing MATLAB documentation while implementing a test suite for some production software and found an example test which used the addTeardown method... read more >>

What can we learn about software from an ice cream shop? Quite a bit apparently. It was in the early 70's that Steve's Ice Cream opened and introduced the world to the notion of mix-ins. The idea was... read more >>

Sometimes, Java® bugs me.Don't get me wrong, in many ways it is a beautiful language full of elegant structure and all the tools you need to help drive robust architectures. However, the flipside... read more >>

Last time we had a small discussion about the merits of keeping inheritance hierarchies shallow and avoiding the creation of deep, multi-level structures. This is all fine and dandy, but how do we... read more >>