Scott McMahan
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Scott McMahan is a software developer who specializes in web and database programming, system design and architecture, and developing software tools. He works with Linux, UNIX, and IBM mainframes; and programs in a variety of languages including C, Perl, Java, and PHP. He has been involved with computers since 1984, and been a software developer since 1993. Scott can be contacted by e-mail and also at LinkedIn or Facebook. | |||
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SoftBase Systems
- Overview
- IBM Stack Setup
- Web-Based VTOC Report
- Java-based Test Framework
- 64-bit Software Development
- Websphere MQ
- .NET Research Project
- Hibernate Persistence Research
- Web Interface For Mainframe App
- XMI Backup Solution
- WORKOUT Test Suite
- Precompiler Re-launch
- Web Product Delivery
- Secure Web Site
- Automated Product Bundling
- Company Backup System
- Mainframe Systems Programming
- Flex-ES Systems Programming
- Mainframe Development/Testing
- Data Masking Tool
- Internet Presence/Administration
- Checkpoint-Restart Web Monitor
- Real-time Data Management Tool
- Java Checkpoint-Restart Tool
- Cross-Platform Checkpoint-Restart API
- Web-Enabled Customer Management
- In-house Phone Report Tool
- In-house License Tool
- Overview
- Channel Intelligence and Miva 5
- Quote Automation System
- Online Used Car Search
- User Validation Module
- Automating Windows With Perl
- Unix Administration
- Improvement
- RPM Planning With Software
- Languages
- Databases
- OS Environments
- Development Tools
- Web Related
- Low-level Programming
- The B.D. McKay Papers
- LaTeX Typesetting
- Media Upload Client
- Web Services For Media
- Open Source Contributions
- History of Computing
- Subversion (SVN)
SoftBase Systems, Inc (1994 - present)
Java-based Test Framework
Requirement was to create a Java-based test framework to allow the testing of remote connections to mainframe DB2 (such as from WebSphere) with a company product, so I implemented the main functionality of the C-based WORKOUT code in Java and added many new features such as a multithreaded component to run test cases in parallel in order to simulate high-volume use of the database (which frequently reveals issues that lower-volume tests do not). I also enabled Jython scripting and created a Python module to encapsulate using the framework, which enabled more sophisticated tests to be written.
The second phase of this project was to run the test code in a JSP web application which could be used from Tomcat and WebSphere for exact testing of remote connections from J2EE implementations.
I also got the Java test framework to operate on the Apple Macintosh, since several developers used that platform.
This project was so successful that almost immediately the requirement surfaced to design a way to allow a JSP web application to access both our product's collected statistical data in a mainframe DB2 table, and also to port some of the product's data analysis logic to Java where it could be run from a JSP page. Doing this would allow users to access our product off of the mainframe. Necessary to work closely with the developer of the original analysis logic, who was eager to learn more about the Java environment.
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| Scott McMahan is a software developer who specializes in web and database programming, system design and architecture, and developing software tools. He works with Linux, UNIX, and IBM mainframes; and programs in a variety of languages including C, Perl, Java, and PHP. He has been involved with computers since 1984, and been a software developer since 1993. Scott can be contacted by e-mail. | |||
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