Test-driven development in Flex

Published May 25th, 2010 Under Flex | 2 Comments

This presentation will demonstrate how to implement user stories taking a test-first approach and how to set up a continuous build.

More Test Driven Development With Javascript: JsTestDriver

Published June 18th, 2009 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Demonstration of JsTestDrive technology and how you can use it to TDD your JavaScript code.

Good blog  posting evaluating JsTestDrive

Test-Driving GUIs (with RubyCocoa)

Published May 12th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Test-driven design is probably more popular in the Ruby community than in other language communities. Nevertheless, test-driven design of graphical user interfaces is still seen as something of a black art. In this talk, I’ll demonstrate how to test-drive a Mac GUI, using either RubyCocoa or MacRuby. I’ll concentrate on opening a File Chooser, then move to drag-and-drop (if there’s time). Along the way, you’ll also see Shoulda, Assert{2.0}, and some hackery on top of FlexMock. Although the Mac’s GUI framework is probably friendlier to test-driven design than most, the principles should be broadly applicable.

Test-Driven Development with YUI Test

Published December 16th, 2008 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Yahoo! engineer and YUI Test developer Nicholas C. Zakas provides an introduction to the concepts of test-driven development (TDD) and shows how to apply them to frontend engineering using YUI Test.

Agile Web Development with Grails

Published May 28th, 2008 Under AJAX, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Agile Development is all about developing code and seeking feedback from your users to make sure you’re developing what’s relevant. When changes are suggested, they must be affordable and reliable.

Grails, along with its facility to develop test driven, is a killer combination for rapidly developing web applications. In this ZePo (Zero PowerPoint) presentation, Venkat took a test driven approach to developing a small, but, fully functional web application in Grails. Venkat covered the fundamental features of Grails along with utilising other capabilities like Ajax. At the end of this presentation Grails eXchange delegates were not only confident, but eager to roll their own web applications using Grails.