Tag Archives: testing

Finding the balance between hacky and over-engineered UI test automation frameworks

There are very few real requirements for a UI test automation framework: It should provide accurate test results It should provide accurate test results every time you ask it for results It should make it easy to write tests It … Continue reading

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Running NetBeans ruby tests from the command line

As far as doing UI testing with watir/firewatir goes, NetBeans is a fantastic IDE. It’s lightweight, but powerful enough to do pretty much anything I need. The integration with Test::Unit is particularly good: I select a test file, I call … Continue reading

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Fitnesse, Ruby and the Mac

I’ve recently started using Fitnesse, an acceptance testing framework. There really isn’t much around on how to get it working on the mac with ruby, so I decided to get it working and put up my findings… Installing the Fit … Continue reading

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