Monthly Archive for September, 2009

Web Application Testing @ SDForum October 6th

Updated: Added links to presentation and source code.

I’ll be down in Palo Alto speaking about Automated Web Application Testing Tuesday October 6th. If you’re interest in getting a peek at the typical Carbon Five Java web architecture along with a variety of strategies and techniques for testing, c’mon down and join us. The session will be primarily code-driven. I’ll implement a few features along with unit, integration and functional tests and show off some of the techniques and custom tools that help keep things simple and easy during development. Some of the topics include:

  • Brief overview of our typical web architecture and tools stack
  • Differences between Unit, Integration and Functional Tests
  • Dealing with the database (schema and fixtures)
  • Where does test coverage pay off the most?
  • In-browser and out-of-browser functional testing
  • Carbon Five best practices, custom tools and techniques
  • And more…

You can find the gritty details on the SDForum site.

Doors at 6:30 and the show begins at 7:00. Hope to see you there!

Here are the artifacts from the presentation:

Aardvark for iPhone on the App Store

We’re excited to see that the Aardvark iPhone app is now available on the app store. Since handing off an earlier version of the app to their internal team we’ve been waiting with baited breath for its release.

It has been very well received with TechCrunch claiming it the best way to use Aardvark and 4 1/2 stars from over 100 ratings in just a couple days.

Working on this project with the Aardvark team was great. We love their intensely user-driven approach for designing and validating features through iterative development. We also pioneered our own best practices for test driven development to the iPhone platform, something that seems to be rare in the iPhone development community.