Pickle with Cucumber
Published March 10th, 2010 Under Agile, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format. Pickle gives you cucumber steps that create your models easily from factory-girl or machinist factories/blueprints
http://railscasts.com/episodes/186-pickle-with-cucumber
Maven 3 Reloaded
Published March 10th, 2010 Under Configuration Management, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
The Maven team has gone to the ends of the earth to ensure backward compatibility, improve usability, increase performance, allow safe embedding, and pave the way for implement many highly demanded features. This talk will briefly cover the process and tooling changes that have occurred in the Maven project in order to accomplish what we have done with Maven 3.0, as well as discuss the architectural and feature changes. Some of the process changes include setting up a multi-platform Hudson grid, building out a framework of over 440 integration tests, creating integration tests for all core Maven plugins, and systematically seeking out Maven 2.x OSS projects to validate Maven 3.x’s compatibility. We also built out a framework that measures disk I/O, network I/O, memory consumption, and CPU utilization to ensure that performance doesn’t degrade.
Learn About Continuous Integration With Hudson Directly From the Source
Published March 8th, 2010 Under Agile, Configuration Management, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
San Francisco Java User Group presents Kohsuke Kawaguchi from Sun who introduces us to Hudson, an open-source continuous integration (CI) system, which improves the productivity of a development team by automating various things.
Additional resources:
Continuous Integration: The Cornerstone of a Great Shop
Continuous Integration Tools Directory
Acceptance-Test Driven Development – Bring Developers and Testers Together
Published March 3rd, 2010 Under Agile, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) are powerful techniques, helping developers write better designed, more maintainable and more reliable code, and stay focused on the real user requirements. But how does the rest of the team fit in to the picture? In this talk, John Smart, creator of the Java Power Tools Bootcamp, looks at how BDD techniques, and tools such as easyb and FitNesse, can also act as drivers for the overall development process, and also as communication tools, giving testers and end-users clear and unambiguous feedback on what is being developed and where it is at in terms of delivery and schedule.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/john-smart-acceptance-test-driven-development
Learning how to use Manual Mocks for Testing
Published March 1st, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment
In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use manual mocks for testing. Often times when creating unit tests we need to work in isolation in order to cover the paths we are attempting to test. When we want to test in isolation you can use a testing technique where you mock out your dependencies. When using Mocks you can either do it manually (what we are looking at) or you can use a mocking framework like Rhino Mocks. Either way you achieve the same results.
http://www.dimecasts.net/Content/WatchEpisode/164
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