More Test Driven Development With Javascript: JsTestDriver

Published June 18th, 2009 Under Software Testing, TDD | 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 Software Testing, TDD | 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.

Agile Methods and User Centered Design

Published February 11th, 2009 Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

In this presentation filmed during ThoughtWorks’ Quarterly Technology Briefing, Dave Robertson and John Johnston explain what the Agile and User Centered Design’s (UCD) common denominators are, common values being the most important one in their opinion.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-UCD-Robertson-Johnston

Test-Driven Development with YUI Test

Published December 16th, 2008 Under Coding, Software Testing, TDD | 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.

Building Business Critical Rich Internet Applications with Abobe Flex

Published August 12th, 2008 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

This session will focus on parallels between Flex and Java development concerning Continuous Integration and best practices. Jan will talk about automated builds with ANT, testing with FlexUnit and choice of architectural frameworks. Jan Van Coppenolle is a certified Flex developer and lead Flash platform innovation architect at Xplore. He’s got roots in integrated product development and ended up in interface design, multimedia and online echnologies through a series of events since 1996. Currently he’s involved in Flex/Flash/AIR development as a project manager, team coach, instructor, researcher and hardcore coding champion.

Watch this video on parleys.com

Agile Web Development with Grails

Published May 28th, 2008 Under Coding, TDD | 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.

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