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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779663303321

Autore

Anker Elizabeth S (Elizabeth Susan), <1973->

Titolo

Fictions of dignity [[electronic resource] ] : embodying human rights in world literature / / Elizabeth S. Anker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8014-6563-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

809/.933581

Soggetti

Human rights in literature

Social justice in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals -- Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice -- Coda : small places, close to home.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In Fictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, and species membership. In the process, Anker examines the



vital work performed by a particular kind of narrative imagination in fostering respect for human rights. Drawing on phenomenology, Anker suggests how an embodied politics of reading might restore a vital fleshiness to the overly abstract, decorporealized subject of liberal rights.Each of the novels Anker examines approaches human rights in terms of limits and paradoxes. Rushdie's Midnight's Children addresses the obstacles to incorporating rights into a formerly colonized nation's legal culture. El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero takes up controversies over women's freedoms in Islamic society. In Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee considers the disappointments of post-apartheid reconciliation in South Africa. And in The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy confronts an array of human rights abuses widespread in contemporary India. Each of these literary case studies further demonstrates the relevance of embodiment to both comprehending and redressing the failures of human rights, even while those narratives refuse simplistic ideals or solutions.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787293503321

Autore

Erinle Bayo

Titolo

JMeter cookbook : 70 insightful and practical recipes to help you successfully use Apache JMeter / / Bayo Erinle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Birmingham : , : Packt Publishing, , 2014

ISBN

1-78398-829-0

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Quick answers to common problems

Disciplina

004.67

Soggetti

Cross-platform software development

Computer software - Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: JMeter Fundamentals; Introduction; Executing a test script; Recording a script via HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder; Recording scripts via the Chrome browser extension; Converting HTTP web archives (HAR) to JMeter test



plans; Viewing and analyzing test results; Feeding data into a script; Using timers; Managing HTTP user sessions; Testing Single Page Applications (SPAs); Testing AJAX-centric applications; Chapter 2: Handling Responses; Introduction

Using Regular Expression ExtractorUsing Regular Expression Tester; Using CSS/jQuery Extractor; Using XPath Extractor; Dealing with file downloads; Handling XML responses; Handling JSON responses; Handling HTML responses; Using Response Assertion; Using Duration Assertion; Uploading files with your scripts; Chapter 3: Building Robust Test Plans with Controllers; Introduction; Using Transaction Controller in test plans; Using Loop Controller in test plans; Leveraging ForEach Controller in test plans; Using Interleave and Random Controller in test plans; Using Runtime Controller in test plans

Chapter 4: Testing ServicesIntroduction; Testing REST web services; Testing SOAP web services; Testing FTP services; Testing relational databases; Testing NoSQL databases; Testing JMS services; Chapter 5: Diving into Distributed Testing; Introduction; Testing applications with JMeter's master-slave setup; Testing internal applications using JMeter and Vagrant; Testing external facing applications using JMeter, Vagrant, and AWS; Testing external facing applications using Flood.IO; Testing external facing applications using BlazeMeter; Chapter 6: Extending JMeter; Introduction

Using REST SamplerUsing Ultimate Thread Group; Using Throughput Shaping Timer; Using Console Status Logger; Using Dummy Sampler; Developing custom JMeter plugins; Testing WebSocket-enabled applications; Chapter 7: Building, Debugging, and Analyzing the Results of Test Plans; Introduction; Using the View Results Tree listener; Using the Aggregate Report listener; Debugging with Debug Sampler; Using Constant Throughput Timer; Using the JSR223 postprocessor; Analyzing Response Times Over Time; Analyzing transactions per second; Using User Defined Variables (UDV); Chapter 8: Beyond the Basics

IntroductionContinuous Integration with JMeter; Testing with different bandwidths; Using the HTTP Cache Manager component; Using script languages within test plans; Writing test scripts through Ruby DSL; Understanding JMeter properties; Monitoring servers while executing tests (using VisualVM); Monitoring servers while executing tests (using YourKit Profiler); Monitoring servers while executing tests (using New Relic); Performance tips to scale JMeter; Appendix: Installing the Supporting Software Needed for this Book; Introduction; Installing JMeter; Installing the Java Development Kit (JDK)

Installing JMeter plugins

Sommario/riassunto

This book is great for you if you are a developer, quality assurance engineer, tester, or test manager who is looking to get a firmer grasp of elementary, deep, and advanced testing concepts using Apache JMeter. It's assumed you have access to a computer and an Internet connection. No prior testing or programming experience is required, but would be helpful.