http://www.testearly.com Thought Leaders in helping development teams optimizing Agile software production Wed, 14 May 2008 13:41:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For any developer looking to test web services, there are a number of tools out there that seem to fit the bill. When you need one that allows you to interact and create functional and load tests with relative ease, soapUI is bound to be the tool you can't ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/05/14/making-your-life-easier-with-soapui/ I don't always agree with Mr. Yegge, but this is a great presentation/script on Dynamic Languages with some very interesting ideas and discussion topics. One point that he never actually got to, but one that I think is worth more discussion - how do you maintain a million-line codebase w/out static ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/05/12/steve-yegge-on-dynamic-languages/ Mastering the art of command line jujitsu is something every developer (regardless of OS) should strive for. While OS UIs are becoming more and more slick and helpful tools are abundant, possessing the ability to drop into a console and efficiently knock something out (find . -iname *.java | xargs ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/05/06/three-commands-for-subversion-enlightenment/ We had a proxy problem with Selenium RC today. The site-under-test is behind a proxy, and has the same domain name as the production site (let's call it shop.mystore.com). Normally, developers set their proxy server in their browser, which then causes requests for shop.mystore.com ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/04/30/selenium-rc-and-proxy-chaining-double-proxies/ The ThoughtWorks Anthology by ThoughtWorks is a collection of essays which covers a broad range of problems facing IT industry and developers in particular throughout the software development life cycle. You'll find tons of pragmatic advice to improve the efficiency of your development efforts. In this book, you'll find essays on ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/04/30/the-thoughtworks-anthology-book-review/ This was discovered with Clover 2.2.1 We have a build.xml file with the following pseudo-flow: clover-setup // this causes all future compilations to use the clover compiler to instrument the files. compile javac _all_source_ test_A javac _unit_test_source_ // yes, this is a subset of all source junit _unit_tests_ test_B javac _unit_test_source_ // yes, ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/04/23/interesting-clover-behavior-wiping-out-coverage-database-between-test-tasks/ Jim York, a long time Stelligent friend, a Certified Scrum Trainer and lean and agile coach, is conducting a Certified ScrumMaster class May 5-6 in Vienna, VA. Learn the essentials of working as ScrumMasters, Product Owners, and Scrum team members in this highly-interactive 2-day class. Jim creates an ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/04/21/scrum-training-may-5th-and-6th/ Calling all blokes and sheilas-- this year’s Asia-Pacific CITCON will be in Melbourne, Australia on June 27th & 28th-- registration is now open so claim your spot before space runs out (space is limited to the first 150 tall poppies, surfies, and all around dags)! If you dream about ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/04/18/have-a-rip-snorter-of-a-time-at-citcon-asia-pacific/ Let's say you have a fairly complicated build structure, with multiple batch files that fire off different aspects of the build (even if, at the end of the day, they just call ant). And let's assume that for various historical reasons, these batch files encapsulate their environment variables using SETLOCAL and ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/04/17/handy-dandy-hudson-trick/ So you want to build a set of automated tests using Selenium against your webapp. I'm going to assume you have already figured out how to launch your app and set the database into a known state. Now, you want to write some tests that mimic visiting the website and ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/04/11/quick-guide-to-selenium-rc/