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As a long time user and advocate of Selenium I have found that using it on large projects ultimately consumes a lot of time with the following concerns:

Organising tests into logical groups
Executing testcases against multiple target browsers
Parallel execution of testcases

The motivation for these is to speed development; as the number of tests grow you eventually hit [...]

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 Core JSF
Howard Lewis Ship, Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind
Ken Sipe, Technology Director, Perficient, Inc. (PRFT)
Mark Richards, SOA and [...]

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:

EasyB: BDD For Groovy & Grails (Jerome Pimmel)

EasyB leverages the Groovy language with a simple readable DSL for writing BDD [...]

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 Excuses’ link above) to get a sense of how using such methods can help achieve the [...]

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 JSMock or Jack, is it’s observance of the 3-A’s pattern (Arrange Act Assert), I quote:

Arrange is [...]

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 MockMe. They both seem very capable but I wanted something quick to test a class [...]