While developing rich and dynamic applications and systems has become easier, testing them has not. As new UI paradigms, controls, traffic types and integrations have mushroomed, test approaches and tools continue to lag. Bugs and performance issues found in the field drive home the fact that software should be tested a lot more and tested well before it is released. Tonight will be a down to earth look and discussion on testing Flex applications!!
This evening will feature some community members and seasoned practitioners talking about how to organize and manage testing, and what are the best practices and pitfalls for using two popular Flex and Actionscript testing frameworks. This is a cant afford to miss event for folks building (or looking to build) enterprise class, real-time, collaborative applications using Flex and LCDS. Someone might drop the kimono a little here. Bring your QA folks along too! This evenings subjects and speakers will be:
- Zephyr: Comprehensive On-Demand Testing Lifecycle Management - Shailesh Mangal is the Chief Architect and technology visionary at Zephyr. He has been developing enterprise and web applications for 14 years professionally, and has developed applications using Flex, LCDS, AIR, Java, Ruby, Groovy, etc. Zephyr is an on-demand, cloud based Test Management Platform offering innovative applications and unparalleled, metrics based visibility via real time dashboards into the quality and status of software projects. The feature rich solution addresses todays dynamic and global needs across a variety of industries including finance, healthcare, mobile, IT services, and enterprise software.
- Unit Testing Flex Applications with FlexUnit 4 and FlashBuilder 4: Chris Luebcke will demonstrate the cool new integration of FlexUnit into FlashBuilder 4, and will discuss strategies for unit testing Flex applications. Chris is a Senior Flex Architect and Engineer who we all know from roundpeg and more recently UniversalMind. Chris will talk about using FlexUnit(wiki), a unit testing framework for Flex and ActionScript 3.0 applications and libraries. It mimics the functionality of JUnit, a Java unit testing framework, and comes with a graphical test runner. FlexUnit 4 is meta-data driven allowing you to have extreme freedom and ease when creating tests. Please check out the features section to find out more.
- AsUnit from AsUnit.org - Luke Bayes and Ali Mills the Pattern Park Boys will talk about their new release of AsUnit as there is quite a bit of stuff coming. AsUnit is the only open-source unit test framework for ActionScript that works with ActionScript 2, 2.5, 3.0, Flash Authoring (back to MX and up to CS4), Flex Builder, the Flex Framework (2 and 3), MTASC, MXMLC, and any version of Flash Player since version 6, including AIR and even FlashLite. We can even emit JUnit-compatible XML results. There is no dependency on any external tooling or framework. It just works, and it works everywhere. Luke and Ali are passionate and energetic speakers who will keep you on the edge of your seat so for those who have not seen them present before this will be a treat.
Networking at 6:30, presentations at 7:00 - each speaker will have 40 minutes for presentation and discussions.
Pizza and beer sponsored by Zephyr - For more information, please visit www.getzephyr.com
This evening will be broadcast and recorded on Adobe Connect - details to follow.
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