In this session, Kevin Seal will present some recent experiences of testing a JavaEE project and how coverage was a double-edged sword, unit testing a blessing and a curse, and a pragmatic mix of test approaches was eventually invaluable in refining the architecture and development process. Kevin Seal talks about the role of testing in design and development processes. Unit testing has several benefits, like providing easy refactoring, simplified integration, and improved documentation. However, while most developers know how to write unit tests, they do not necessarily know what they …

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in New York on August 23 and 24, 2007. Presentation on Functional Testing Swing Applications with Frankenstein, an Open Source testing tool that he co-authored.
Vivek Prahlad is a Senior Developer at ThoughtWorks. He currently heads the Innovation and Open Source related activities at ThoughtWorks India. At ThoughtWorks, he has played several roles, from being a Technical Lead, Agile Coach to Project Manager.

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Frankenstein

Unit Testing Java & SOA, In-the-Brain of Frank Cohen at Skills Matter, London. Java developers have widely adopted test first software development strategies. Unit test frameworks for Java, Web services, Ajax, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, and Flash/Action Script show the diversity of adoption among Java developers. In this session, Frank took Java developers through the advanced topics in unit testing: turning unit tests into functional tests, running unit tests on a scalable grid of unit testing nodes, leveraging unit tests build by developers …

Frank Cohen will demonstrate the new PushToTest TestMaker Version 5 open- source end-to-end service governance and test automation tool. Software developers use PushToTest to turn their unit tests into functional tests in a test automation platform that runs on their development machine. Frank will demonstrate PushToTest’s Wizards and Recorders to automatically build tests and supports a variety of languages, including Java, .NET, Jython, Groovy, PHP, Ruby, and many others. Plus Frank will show how PushToTest Version 5 supports SOA, Web Service, AJAX, and REST services using HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, XML- …