Have to plug Scanbuy’s, Inc., global leader in mobile barcode solutions, today announced that it has released a Software Development Kit (SDK) which allows mobile application developers to launch the ScanLife mobile barcode reader from any third party application.  The tool will be immediately available at no cost to work with Google’s Android operating system, and others will be added in the coming weeks.

Visit the official Scanbury website for a demonstration video.

ScanLife is also a complete, all-in-one code scanner which can quickly launch mobile content by scanning any number of commonly used 2D and 1D barcodes like QR, Datamatrix, EZcode, UPC, EAN and ISBN.  It is the preferred choice for a number of leading handset manufacturers and mobile operators, already installed and preloaded on over 25 million devices today around the world.  Due to its level of distribution, ScanLife has been tested thoroughly on hundreds of devices.

Developers interested in learning more about the ScanLife SDK for Android can visit www.scanlife.com for more information worth checking this tool out.

Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it’s free.

iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs. If you have questions about iPhoney, visit our issue tracker on SourceForge as our support team doesn’t provide technical support for iPhoney.

We’ve added a few handy features to iPhoney 1.2, and it is still open source so that talented developers from around the world can make it the best tool for testing iPhone-compatible web creations. What’s new in version 1.2:

* View source to see the source code for the page you’re viewing, great for checking iPhone targeted pages.
* Localized for Norwegian, French, and German users.

iPhacts.

iPhoney requires Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later. Here’s some of what you can do with iPhoney:

* Test your iPhone-enabled Web 2.0 applications and compatible web sites.
* Open any website that works with Safari (use Safari 3 beta for the most accurate experience).
* Rotate to see websites in either portrait or landscape orientation.
* Show or hide the location bar for a full-screen iPhone experience.
* Simulate the iPhone user agent, to test browser redirection scripts.
* Zoom out to see how your current pages might look while zoomed out on iPhone.
* Turn off plug-ins (including Flash, but note that they all turn off (including QuickTime).
* Automatic updates with Sparkle, s
o you’ll always know if there’s a new version.
* And of course, open source code so you can contribute to iPhoney’s rapid development.

Go to TesterTools for more detail.

TestWeaver is a tool for the automatic test and validation of reactive systems.

Examples of reactive systems include embedded software. It includes a framework for automatic test generation and evaluation. Works with C/C++, Simulink, TargetLink and others.

Published by QTronic TestWeaver implements a novel method for automatic test and validation of dynamic systems. The generated test scenarios are not just static test vectors – they can be complex time-varying control signals.

* High coverage with low specification effort
* Design and implementation errors are found earlier
* Easy connection to the tool chain used by the development engineers

The official TestWeaver site can be found here

TestWeaver is a tool for automatic test and validation of reactive systems, e.g. embedded software. It includes a framework for automatic test generation and evaluation. Works with C/C++, Simulink, TargetLink and others.

The rise in prominence of Cloud Based Technologies has resulted in the need for Cloud Software Testing Tools.

Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java EE applications on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).

Cloud Tools contains 3 main components

* Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are configured to run Tomcat and work with EC2Deploy. See list of installed software.
* EC2Deploy – the core framework. This framework manages EC2 instances, configures MySQL, Tomcat, Terracotta and Apache and deploys the application.
* Maven and Grails plugins that use EC2Deploy to deploy an application to EC2

The team behind Cloud Tools are looking for beta testers to get involved in testing a new hosted version of Cloud Tools that provides automated application monitoring and management.

For more details you can go to Chris Richardson’s website at  www.chrisrichardson.net