Testing Annotation Processors
Posted by Andrew Phillips in the early evening: July 21st, 2009
Recently, I was writing an Annotation Processor for the @Composite project. In good TDD fashion, that first and foremost meant writing some tests.
Although I in the end come across something that was fairly workable, it was trickier than one might have hoped for.
Web performance in seven steps; step 3: test representatively
Posted by Jeroen Borgers at around evening time: June 29th, 2009
Last time I blogged about the importance of benchmarking the architecture and new technology in a Proof of Concept for Performance. This time I’ll deal with the importance of representative performance testing.
Slowness of applications in development environments is often neglected with the rationale that faster hardware in the production environment will solve this problem. However, whether this is really true can only be predicted with a test on a representative environment and in a representative way. In such an environment, there needs to be more representative than just the hardware.
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Fitnesse – Selenium integration struggles
Posted by Cirilo Wortel around lunchtime: April 23rd, 2009
Recently I was challenged by a client to test a new web application in an Agile project. The team was new at working Agile and even more with working together with a functional tester, altogether this resulted in me getting very little development support from the team.
Because the lack of tooling and support I focussed my efforts on just recording test-scripts using Selenium IDE, hoping I would be able to reuse them once I got the development support I had been requesting. The plan was to integrate the pre-recorded scripts in a more extended test environment in a later stage of the project.
Flex Testing Toolkit
Posted by Abhishek Agrawal in the late evening: November 19th, 2008
My recent assignment at Albumprinter gave an opportunity to play with flex testing tools available out there. Coming back to serious flex development after more than a year was a pleasant surprise. The state of flex when I last did something on it was for sure not “mature”. There weren’t many frameworks around.
But things have changed a great deal since then. Not only do we have frameworks implementing MVC (Cairngorm) but also some standard extensions (UM extensions) to those frameworks, we also have spring like IOC frameworks (Prana) for Flex.
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Helpful error messages in Grails
Posted by Erik Pragt around lunchtime: May 4th, 2008
Currenttly, I'm in the process of building a Grails application. While I've built several prototypes/quick hacks, this is actually the first 'real' application I'm building. "So", I thought, "if this is a real application, I'm in need of some real tests!". When you're in the normal flow of developing a Grails application, everything goes so fast, you almost forget about writing the tests. So I decided to do it a bit differently, and do it just like in Java: do it TDD!
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