Today was about to download multiple files from an authenticated FTP server. The native ftp client of Ubuntu didn't help me as expected. I was trying to log into the FTP server and was constantly getting disconnected when trying to perform some operation. When browsed for some alternative found this ncftp client. This actually worked instantly and was pretty easy in installing.

Install NCFTP:
sudo apt-get install ncftp

Log into FTP server: 
ncftp -u username hostname -p


it will prompt for password enter it. Type '?' in the terminal for the list of commands and there you go :)

Check out the NCFTP client for other platforms.

When i was writing functional tests i stepped into a scenario where i have to continue with the test even after an assertion failure. The idea here is that you find an assertion failing, still you may need to go ahead and check out all the assertions as these tests generally take long time to complete. At the end of the test it will be good to have the summary of all the failures along with the stack trace. I was looking for some testing framework to help out with this functionality but unfortunately cant find any.

Finally using TestNg i implemented this feature. All you need is to write a listener that listens whenever a test fails and simply logs the stack trace without failing the test. There is a neat step by step tutorial given here 

Though this example has some specific information for Selenium based tests, it works fine with normal functional tests too.

Happy Testing :)