There are many things that make a summer: sea, sun, cocktails. Everything you see in that logo up there. But this summer, we give you something way cooler (pun intended). The Typemock Summer Sale 2010 starts today. When you purchase Isolator, you can choose between a 50% off the purchase, or get the entire suite …
Tag Archive: Racer
Aug
09
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Jul
12
Yet Another Racer Review
And another Typemock Racer review emerges. Thanks, Bill Craun! I really appreciate the time you put into the review. Just to remind everyone, you can download Racer and find out what it can do for you.
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Nov
11
Racer Feature Focus – Using Attributes
In the last PDC Microsoft shown a new tool called Chess (http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL58/) that will help the user find Concurrent bugs. Unfortunately Chess is still a Microsoft Research project and until it will become an actual product the only product that can deterministically find deadlock issues is Racer. Software developers that don’t want to wait until …
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Oct
28
PDC 2008 – Concurrency and .NET
Concurrent programming is becoming essential for developers as multi-core processors are the de-facto standard. So its not that surprising that in the current PDC Microsoft has devoted several sessions to multi-threaded programming. You can see the slides from the pre PDC session on Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET. One of tomorrow’s sessions …
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Oct
05
A Simple Deadlock Challenge
Its been a few months since we’ve released the Alpha version of Typemock Racer. Since then we have been using it internally and we’re quite confident that it can find most deadlocks we can think of – care to prove us wrong? It’s really simple – Can you create code that has a deadlock that …
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Sep
23
New stable version of Typemock Racer: Visualizations, new APIs and much more
Yesterday we have released a new stable release of Typemock Racer. Since the last stable release the Racer Team has been working hard on fixing bug and adding new features to our product. We’re now supporting the following synchronization objects: AutoResetEvent/ManualResetEvent ReaderWriterLock ThreadPool Thread.Join Deadlock Visualization during test debugging and as part of test results. …
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Sep
14
The woes of multithreaded design – How to find deadlock using Typemock Racer
I came across an article on Dr’ Dobb’s I’d like to share called The woes of multithreaded design. The amazing thing is that although the article was published at 1997 (11 years ago) the problem described in it is still relevant today. The article explains basic multithreading concepts (in Java) such as threads, thread safety …
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Sep
08
Racer Nightly builds available
If you’re reading this blog and somehow don’t know what is Typemock Racer you can read about it here. Since the release of Typemock Racer alpha version our development team added several new features and bug fixes. Because we want Racer users to be able to test their applications with the latest version in …
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Sep
05
Finding Deadlocks with ReaderWriterLock and Typemock Racer
This feature was just added to the Racer Alpha. Given the following method: Can you see a potential for deadlock in this method? Running the latest build of Typemock Racer using the following test should reveal an answer: When running this (using TestDriven.NET) we get a DeadlockFoundException, with the following listing: basically, if two …
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Aug
19
Typemock Racer Released!
I’m happy to announce the release of the Alpha version of our newest product Typemock Racer. you can get it here. Typemock Racer is a tool that uses dynamic and static analysis to find deadlocks in .NET code. By using Racer API a developer can specify what code to test for deadlocks, how many threads …
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Start Your Startup with Unit Testing
