Railsers et al: Anyone developing Ajax applications needs to read my new Short Cut, at O'Reilly: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/ "Test Driven...
I know Java isn't Phlip's favorite language, but I don't think he'll mind me posting the first message of the month on this topic. There are three (at least)...
... MFC has major architectural flaws that resist clean testing. One good policy is to use "in vivo" testing, per the book /Working Effictively with Legacy ...
... Modulo the legacy implications. Tip: Find the lowest-level functions you can, maybe things as simple as a glorified strcat(), and write unit tests on them....
... +1 Windows has various subtle bugs regarding DoModal(). One should treat it as a convenience function for lazy programming. Make the dialog modeless, and ...
... Absolutely. One of my helper functions is called windowWouldBeVisible() --- I use it to verify that controls are correctly hidden or shown as appropriate, ...
... I TDD Ajax using Ruby on Rails using these techniques: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/ The goal is all unit tests work with the "mock the...
... Treat the GUI as just another library, and _start_ with fearless unit tests on it. If by Win32 you mean its widgets layer - buttons, edit fields, and other...
Greetings, I'm interested to learn how folks approach TDDing views which contain tables. I've read about using various styles of presenters (Supervising ...
I'm in rather a new position: I've actually gotten a colleague enthused about TDD, and even NMock! He's an engineer, w/o much experience writing GUIs, and now...
At this month's Extreme Programming San Diego (XPSD) meeting, Phlip Plumlee will teach us how to perform Test-Driven Development for Ajax under Rails. Phlip...
I finally found a good XPath exploring tool, so I wrote it up here: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/xpath_checker_and_assert_xpath.html -- Phlip ...
On the agile-testing list, I've been gathering info WRT acceptance tests for this and comparing WatiR, WatiN, Selenium, etc... So now I've noticed that our...
Hi Rob, ... Yes, UI tests are very slow, whether it's web-based or GUI. That's one of the big problems with them. Sometimes you're forced to decide on timeout...
Hi Rick, Have you written Fit tests for GWT? If so, did your tests require one of the fake hosted mode browsers to run to handle widgets or deferred binding? ...
Hi Dan, No, I haven't, but I've been keen to try out GWT for some time. I really like the way they manage Javascript. I've been waiting for the widget set to...
GWT code looks like regular Java code except in a few conditions: it can inline native JavaScript within your Java source, or it can use a compile-time...
Hi, Please try WebAii from www.artoftest.com I have used it and it is really good.It can be run inside the NUnit framework,supports AJAX testing. And it can be...
... Mark, that's something I hadn't thought about as I've never used the record/playback form of testing with Abbot. I used it for TDDing the GUI, so the...
TFUIers: Ideally, when your developer tests call production code, it should not spew output to your STDOUT stream. If it must emit strings, it should return...
... Do your developers run the tests after every 1 to 10 edits, with the highest odds on 1? Do your developers prefer to revert when a test fails unexpectedly...
Just a question to the group - if you are looking to start automating testing, you may not have the opportunity to invest in automating all you would like to...
I think neither, but perhaps focus on problem forms (?) first. Actually, I would focus on new stories first, then problem forms second. I would work new...
[CCd to testfirstuserinterfaces@yahoogroups.com ] ... Study the source to Cairo (part of Gtk+). It uses a system called "golden master test". Each test case...
