Archive for the 'Open Source' Category

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 [...]

Paying Homage to the IntelliJ Gods
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

I have worked off an on the last couple of days to migrate the easyb and Infinitest plugins for IntelliJ to IntelliJ 8. Much to my delight the changes that the JetBrains folks made to the the plugin API were not backwards compatible with previous versions, were not clearly defined, and certainly were not [...]

easyb Tutorial at SD Best Practices
Sunday, October 19th, 2008

A week from Monday on October 27 Andy Glover and are running a half day tutorial at SD Best Practices on using easyb for Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and as a communication tool in story writing. If you’re going to be in Boston for this conference and are interested in learning more about [...]

Multi Module Support With InfiniJ
Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Today I released InfiniJ 4.0.3 which provides better support for multi module projects. This new version allows you to mark modules which should be monitored by InfiniJ by adding a facet. This allows InfiniJ to associate an instance of Infinitest to each module you’re interested in monitoring. Each instance will run with [...]

Behavior driven development with easyb article
Sunday, September 7th, 2008

I’ve been kind of quiet on my blog for a while, largely because of my newly acquired tennis addiction, but also because I have been working on an article about easyb. I recently wrapped this up and JavaWorld published it last Friday. So if you’re interested in reading about Behavior Driven Development with [...]