About STP / 877.257.9531
Log In Join Now
Community / Events / Training / Resources / ST&QA Magazine / Community Forum

Claire Cates

SAS

Principal Developer



BS Computer Science NCSU MS Computer Science University of South Carolina 1979-1981 Barr-Mullen Raleigh NC 1981-1983 NCR Corp West Columbia SC 1983-1983 CTI Data Raleigh NC 1983- SAS Institute Inc. Cary NC I'm a developer, I'm a tester, I wear both hats. I love bridging the gap between the two groups. I develop tools that help SAS improve the code. I also work with third party vendors when I find a tool that I feel fits a need here at SAS. My two specialties are software performance and testing threaded applications. I'm also starting to dabble in software security.

Badges

My Articles

Whose Fault is it?

Monday October 11th 2010 12am 2 0 Comments ST&QA Magazine Error Handling
To achieve complete code coverage during application testing, all error conditions need to be triggered. Forcing errors out of memory or disk full can be next to impossible, yet the code paths must be tested to guarantee that the application handles these errors correctly.
Basic

How Dynamic Memory Allocations Can Affect Performance

Tuesday August 31st 2010 9am 3 0 Comments Best Practices Development How To Metrics Performance Quality Assurance Software Process
This article will explain how dynamic memory allocations and frees can affect application performance. The article also discusses how testers can help find these bottlenecks and solutions that developers can implement to fix these bottlenecks.
Basic

Memory Fragmentation

Monday August 23rd 2010 2pm 2 1 Comment Development Performance Software
What is memory fragmentation and what problems can it cause in your application?
Pro

App Thread Testing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Thursday October 1st 2009 7am 1 1 Comment Performance Process Software Testing Web
Threading is a great way to improve application performance. But it can also bring it to a screeching halt. Learn how to do one without the other and how to test for both.
Pro
4 Items | View Page 1 


Advertisement






Friend SoftwareTestPro on Facebook
Follow @SoftwareTestPro on Twitter
Create or Join a Crew

Tweets You Care About


    



Explore STP
About STP / Contact Us / Advertise / Terms of Use

This site's content copyright © 2003−2010 by Redwood Collaborative Media. All rights reserved.
Software Test & Performance™, STP™, Software test professionals™ and Software Test & Quality Assurance Magazine™ are trademarks of Redwood Collaborative Media.