For those using Grails 1.1 already there’s a new command line argument for testing which re-runs only tests which previously failed. grails test-app -rerun Thanks to @wangjammer5
March 16, 2009
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March 12, 2009
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Energize your development
Gus Power and Kris Lander of EnergizedWork just presented ‘No Excuses: Concept to Cash Every Week‘ at QCon London which highlights the manner by which development is executed within the EnergizedWork stable. It’s worth reviewing the slides (available via ‘No … Continue reading
February 12, 2009
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MockMe can JSUnit test your Prototype classes too!
Following my previous post I discovered a very helpful email in my inbox from Johannes Link, the author of MockMe, who provided an example of using MockMe to unit test my PrototypeJS classes. One of the benefits of MockMe, vs … Continue reading
February 11, 2009
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Hit the road Jack: OO Javascript testing made easy!
I’ve long been used to having decent testing frameworks in Java / Groovy / Grails however its taken me a while to stumble upon similar ways to test in Javascript. I tried my hand at using JSMock and then tried … Continue reading
February 10, 2009
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Wired.com enlists Grails for new ‘Product Reviews’ site area
Grails gets centre stage for being used by Wired.com in it’s new ‘Product Reviews’ site area. Needless to say, I was unsurprised by (and in full agreement with) the following statements in the release: Our developers are much happier developing in Grails because … Continue reading
February 5, 2009
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How now, slow cow?
Well who would ever have thought, but according to Google the performance of IE has been proved as slower than even Rhino, the Javascript parser and execution library! It never ceases to amaze me how so much money can be … Continue reading
January 15, 2009
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Open Flash Chart 101: Make it %#$@!?* work
I have recently been attempting to get my head around Open Flash Chart to, at the very least, get an equivalent ‘Hello World’ version running before I run off customising it. Should be simple right? Well yes, once you get … Continue reading
January 2, 2009
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Unit performance testing tactics
In my previous article on performance testing, I suggested that incremental and iterative development of performance unit tests was an essential part of your overall performance testing strategy. However, performance testing the parts of a system is vastly different from … Continue reading
December 29, 2008
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My experiences in app performance test automation
I’ve done a lot of performance analysis and improvement in my time although it’s only in my last 3 projects that we started automating it. In all cases a developer check-in would trigger the execution of a battery of stress/concurrency … Continue reading
December 5, 2008
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handling multiple object instances within gsp forms
I needed to handle multiple dynamic instances of the same type of validating object in a form within Grails. Having searched Google and the lists for an out-of-the-box way, or plugin, or pending bug-fix, I found nothing that already provided … Continue reading