Archive of Ajax Testing
Benchmarking Liberator to 100,000 users
As I mentioned on my previous blog – Comet Servers for a Single-Dealer Platform (SDP) I am performing some new benchmarks for Liberator. These are going to focus on some new things as well as some new figures for our traditional scenarios. Amongst the new benchmarks will be some tests…
Read MoreThe beauty of small tests
When tests are small, a test failure means just one thing – somewhere in these ten lines of code which are being tested, there is an error. Ok, sometimes this can mean that there is an error in the test script, or a there is a failure, or change of…
Read MoreSPA 2010 conference proposals
The SPA conference is always a great event with lots of interesting sessions and a good mix of people in attendence. Following a succesful session that Andrew MacLeod and I ran at last year’s conference (building an automated browser testing framework using Selenium), a couple of proposals have been put…
Read MoreSilverlight for single dealer portals?
Could it be that the time for Silverlight in finance has come? Does Adobe Flex solve any of the complexities of building web applications? Where does Caplin Trader fit in to this landscape? These are all questions that I am hearing (and asking) increasingly at the moment – so here’s…
Read MoreHow to dynamically create a class definition for use with Mock4JS
Mock4JS is a really useful unit testing helper library that allows you to create mocks of your JavaScript classes. What it doesn’t presently support is mocking of objects that you can’t create an instance of yourself using new Class() or of objects that are dynamically created and have functions appended…
Read MoreSPA 2009 Conference – Testing Ajax Applications through the GUI
Last week myself and Patrick Myles, Caplin’s Head of Engineering, presented a workshop session at the SPA 2009 conference on Testing Ajax Applications through the GUI. The main theme of the talk was to demonstrate that, by building a thin business-domain framework on top of Selenium and structuring test cases…
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