Test Driven devlopment

[Abhijith Prabhakar]

Hi Christian,

Welcome to JavaRanch!!

We are starting a new development project with GWT. We are planning to follow agile methodology such as Scrum, Pair programming and test driven development. We are in the process of defining testing strategy for our project.

Will your book be useful for us in defining this? If yes, can you tell me briefly how?. Thanks.

Regards,
Abhijith

[Christian Johansen]

Hi Abhijith,

I have to be honest and say I'm not entirely sure. I have not used GWT personally, but as far as I understand, it is a framework where you write Java which is in turn compiled into JavaScript. My book deals with working directly with JavaScript, and I'm not even sure if you ever do that with GWT.

[Abhijith Prabhakar]

Thanks for the honest reply..will be interesting to read your book though

[Filipi Zimermann]

I can say that maybe it is useful to use a javascript testing tool with GWT.

But it doesn't make sense to test the code generated by the GWT. You have no control of it.
Maybe your own extensions testing would be nice to do.

I never went that far with GWT.

[Filipi Zimermann]

Maybe Selenium (http://seleniumhq.org/) might be a nice tool for you.
Not a javascript testing tool, but a client-side test automation that works with firefox and Google Chrome.

People are calling it BDD. Behavior Driven Development.
Very fun with some ruby tools

[Christian Johansen]

Selenium is worth a shot for acceptance testing, but it is of little help (IMO) for more fine-grained functional or unit testing. If you write JavaScript on your own, I highly recommend you use a unit testing framework to test the code directly. As I've said a few times already, I currently prefer JsTestDriver (http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver/), but there are lots of other tools. Some examples:

QUnit

YUI Test

Jasmine

JSpec

[Abhijith Prabhakar]

Thanks for you suggestions!!

We have started evaluating Selenium. We will also look into the other which you have mentioned. Thanks again