High CPU Usage by Windows Update on Windows RT

Sunday, June 04 2017 good-samaritan

I have a Surface RT tablet that sees regular use as a consumption device - despite complaints about the so-called app-gap, I’ve been able to find all the applications I’ve needed. Recently, however, I found the device had become sluggish for the first ten minutes or so after signing in - something was consuming much of the available CPU (it’s a quad core device) and drive bandwidth.

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Property Testing with FsCheck

Sunday, June 18 2017 testing

I’ve been writing some property tests with FsCheck and to say that the process has been bittersweet is a bit of an understatement. The good news is that writing property tests has successfully uncovered bugs. The bad news is that writing property tests has successfully uncovered bugs.

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Shrinking and Equality Testing with FsCheck

Saturday, June 24 2017 testing

In last week’s Property Testing with FsCheck, we saw how to write a couple of simple tests to check that an implementation of .Equals() was correct. We didn’t see what happens when the test fails, nor what we can do to make that failure easier to understand.

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