August, 2008

Writing Brittle (Yet Useful!) Acceptance Tests for ExtJS Applications Using Selenium’s getEval() 15 Aug 2008

I’m a somewhat enthusiastic fan of Selenium these days. It works consistently well in most situations, and it provides some mechanisms for “going deep” when its more regular API calls prove insufficient. Recently, I was testing an application we’re writing that has a front-end built using the ExtJS framework. Normally, with a bit of XPath-fu, testing [...]
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Just the stuff please 06 Aug 2008

In April, 2008, I attended the “No Fluff, Just Stuff” in the guise of the North West Software Symposium, in Seattle, Washington, USA. For those not in the know, the NFJS series is aimed at tech savvy developers interested in expanding their knowledge and exposure to interesting developments in the land of Agile/Java (predominantly). With [...]
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August 2008 2Paths Team Event 05 Aug 2008

Well, this is officially my first blog ever! It feels a bit weird putting my thoughts out there for all to see. Anyhow, gotta get with the wave of the future, or present, or whatever… So, having just started working at 2Paths in July, I was pretty excited when I heard we were going to have [...]
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Hudson - too easy 02 Aug 2008

Continuous integration is a lovely thing. Automated testing is also lovely as you can see where things work or not almost instantly in different environments and scenarios. Over the years I have used a few CI servers and tools - most notably, CruiseControl (Java and .NET) and Continuum (from the Maven crew). These systems, whilst useful, [...]
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