Posts in Category "Testing"

Cairngorm 3 Released

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Alex Uhlmann | Comments (0)

I’m excited to announce that Cairngorm 3 is released! Cairngorm communicates best practices for enterprise Flex and AIR application development, contributed by Adobe Technical Services and partners. Cairngorm is our opinion on applying modularity, IoC, agile testing, build automation and everything else we find crucial to build enterprise Flex and AIR applications. It is one set of guidelines, tools and libraries you can hand-off to enterprise development teams. Based on our own experience of many large-scale projects, Cairngorm attempts to share this opinion; early and often in order to get your feedback quicker and to advance the Flash platform in the enterprise.
Since going into public Beta in October last year, I think we’ve made a significant step towards making the guidelines coherent, many libraries robust and the tools section a best-of-breed filter for the tools we’ve been using successfully in practice. This is a living project! Expect changes as we’ll receive feedback and our own thinking evolves; Cairngorm will evolve. Cairngorm is a success for us, if it portrays what works for us and can work for our partners and the external community leveraging the Flash Platform.
Cairngorm starts here.

Adobe TV: Agile Testing of Enterprise RIAs with Flex and LiveCycle ES

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Alex Uhlmann | Comments (0)

Adobe TV now hosts the full MAX 2008 session about Agile Testing of Enterprise RIAs with Flex and LiveCycle ES from Herve Dupriez and me. Herve talks about the LCES part and I about Flex.
This presentation focuses on how your architectural design could look like to make agile testing feasible and efficient. It’s explaining principles we’ve been following at projects that can make Test Driven Development of RIAs a reality.
It also touches upon code coverage tooling available for Flex and its recommended usage. Checkout Flexcover, the open source code coverage tool. Flexcover was created by Joe Berkovitz and some months ago I joined his efforts after I developed an internal tool that followed another approach using only Flash Player APIs. Joe’s approach is actually customizing the open source Flex compiler and can therefore achieve object code branch coverage. Join the Flexcover project to keep it going!
During the presentation I’ve mentioned further information about IoC frameworks that my collegue Ed Eustace already put online. Also, Michael Labriola’s presentation at MAX 08 “Testing Flex Applications” spend more time comparing different testing tools. This is not online at Adobe TV yet, but upcoming.
Also check out the presentations from my other colleagues at Adobe Professional Services: