July 23, 2009
by j pimmel
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I recently figured out how to use WebTest for functional testing of Grails controller actions that render JSON. That said, I’m not convinced it’s the best way – I’m fairly sure the gFunc plugin would do it nicely, though I … Continue reading
July 7, 2009
by j pimmel
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The No Fluff, Just Stuff 2009 Tour rolls into Seattle on September 18-20th. The line-up has some interesting speakers: Brian Goetz, Author of Java Concurrency in Practice Brian Sletten, REST Expert David Geary, Author of Graphic Java and co-author of … Continue reading
March 26, 2009
by j pimmel
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Spring has sprung and with that hails the first Vancouver Groovy and Grails meet of the year. Time: Monday 30th March, 18:00 Place: WorkSpace @ 21 Water Street in Gastown, #400 Topics under the spotlight this time round are twofold: … Continue reading
March 16, 2009
by j pimmel
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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 12, 2009
by j pimmel
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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
by j pimmel
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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
by j pimmel
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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
January 31, 2009
by j pimmel
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I was so open-mouthed with amazement at this post by Uncle Bob that I had to re-post! I know Joel Spolsky has a lot of followers so you would expect statements like “Quality doesn’t matter that much” to be backed … Continue reading
January 22, 2009
by j pimmel
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For the past few years myself and colleagues have used Selenium extensively to test-drive (and continuously test) all the web-apps which we’ve collectively been responsible for. In that time our massed experience meant we got pretty slick at writing these … Continue reading
January 2, 2009
by j pimmel
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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