PD- Acceptance Testing With Selenium & Cucumber: COALMG

Date Change To avoid Independence Day conflicts and to pull in a great speaker, we've moved this month's meeting to Friday July 24th. Same time. Same place. Date Change

Unit testing is an important part of your development cycle, but acceptance testing ensures your software meets your project’s requirements. This session shows you two great tools to help write automated acceptance tests: Selenium and Cucumber. You’ll learn how to use these tools to start from a requirement and move through a user story to an acceptance test. You’ll see how Selenium IDE cuts your development time by recording tests automatically for you, and you’ll discover how Selenium RC lets you use one set of tests to evaluate multiple browsers. Finally, we’ll walk through using Cucumber to write a plain-text description on how your system should behave – and use that same file to drive an acceptance test! We’ll discuss how these tools fit in your development process, and how they can be included in automated builds. This session will leave you with an understanding of how these tools can help you boost your quality and ensure you’re meeting your system’s functional requirements.

Biography: Jim Holmes. Father. Husband. Geek. Veteran. Over 20 years IT experience. Co-author of “Windows Developer Power Tools.” Coffee Roaster. MVP for C#. Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. Liked 5th grade so much he did it twice. One-time setter, middle blocker, and weakside hitter. Blogger (http://FrazzledDad.com). Program Manager for Telligent Systems, makers of Community Server and other neat products. Big fan of naps.

What: The Central Ohio Application Lifecycle Management Group - COALMG (http://www.coalmg.org/)

Vision: To proliferate knowledge, experiences, tools and processes toward building great software.

Meetings: COALMG meets on the odd 1st Thursdays of the month (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov) at 6pm - 8pm on the 4th floor of the Microsoft Offices off Polaris Parkway in Columbus, Ohio. For more information, please see the COALMG website. The group meets at: Polaris Center 8800 Lyra Dr., Suite 400 Columbus, OH 43240