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Archive for June, 2009

Solutions To Slow Test Suites

Posted: Friday, June 5th, 2009    Tags: Selenium, Unit Testing

As a proponent of test driven development, I’m naturally a big fan of writing automated tests.
Often, clients who are new to writing automated tests start out by writing big integration tests (with tools like Selenium). This is an easy way to start testing an app that wasn’t written with testability in mind.
Unfortunately, these sorts [...]

Running Jasmine Tests Through Jaxer

Posted: Thursday, June 4th, 2009    Tags: Jasmine, Javascript, Jaxer, Unit Testing, Web development

Jasmine? Jaxer?
Jasmine is a new Javascript testing framework from my pals at Pivotal Labs.
Jaxer is an Apache module that wraps Firefox’s Javascript and rendering engine, providing a server-side Javascript environment that’s fast and compatible with any JS that works in Firefox (including all kinds of DOM manipulation and libraries like Prototype, jQuery, etc.).
Running Jasmine [...]