Archive for the 'Java' Category

Infinitest and Scala
Monday, August 31st, 2009

While at the agile 2009 conference last week Ben Rady and I sat down to figure out what we would need to do to get Infinitest working with Scala. To our delight it worked right out of the box! This is both a testament to the power of JVM based languages and the [...]

SCM Green Hooks
Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Today Improving Works released version 5.0.51 of Infinitest for IntelliJ. This version includes IDE integrated support for SCM Green Hooks. A green hook is an Infinitest term for an action which is taken when your tests are run and all of them are passing (green). This SCM green hook will optionally perform [...]

Infinitest 5.0.26 Released
Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Infinitest 5.0.26 has been released and is available for download from the IntelliJ repository. New features include:

Support for Java 6
Rogue marker fixes
Improved marker support for errors that occur outside the project and in 3rd party libraries.
Resolved a class file parsing issue that occurred with some projects

Infinitest for IntelliJ 5.0.0 Released
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Today the Infinitest team is pleased to announce the release of Infinitest for IntelliJ version 5.0.0. This new version includes two main features: gutter markers and a log tab. The updated plugin is available for download from the plugin manager within IntelliJ. Also, please check out our new and improved home page [...]

FacesTester 0.1 Released
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Yesterday Jason Lee and I released our first version (0.1) of FacesTester, a test framework for JavaServer Faces applications. Jason has a great write-up on features included in this release on his blog at http://blogs.steeplesoft.com/facestester-01-released/ that I won’t repeat here. But I encourage you to give this tool a test drive if you’re [...]

Introducing Faces Tester
Sunday, March 29th, 2009

For the last month or so I have been working on a test framework for JavaServer Faces applications with my friend Jason Lee. The goal of this framework, named FacesTester, is to enable the test driving of JSF applications. Earlier Jason announced FacesTester and today I’d like to illustrate one very simple example [...]

Raising the Bar with Continuous Testing
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Earlier this week the Agile Journal published my article on continuous testing. Please check it out, I would love to hear any feedback you have on the article, CT, or Infinitest.

Hello, Dave
Monday, January 19th, 2009

There are quite a few good tools available for developers who are interested in writing more expressive tests. Frequent readers of this blog will doubtless know that I am a big proponent of easyb which is a very effective groovy-based Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tool. But what if your organization doesn’t support the [...]

Dynamic Returns with Easy Mock
Monday, January 5th, 2009

Previously I posted a little demonstration of capturing parameters passed into a mock with the newest version of Easy Mock. This was handy for those situations where you want to make assertions about how a class under test interacts with its collaborators. In this post I will show another cool new feature [...]

The Slowest Screen I’ve Ever Rapidly Prototyped
Monday, December 22nd, 2008

I wanted to sketch out a screen recently in a manner that didn’t imply any specific technology so I took a couple of hours to explore two ways of rapidly prototyping.