A test guy

Yesterday, I was one of the attendees at the Open Source Test Automation Tool Love-In, hosted by Elisabeth Hendrickson at the QualityTree offices here in the Bay Area.

Other attendees included Dale Emery, Chris Sims, Jeffrey Frederick, Ken Pier, and Kevin Lawrence.

We chatted a bit about test automation philosophy, told war stories, and played with the tools.

I watched Elisabeth set up a RobotFramework test for some ATDD work she is doing with a new website. When she showed the “fixture” code and the interface capabilities of the tool, I was hooked. I’m going to write up some tests for the big-app-at-work next week.

Kevin Lawrence gave a demo of what he accomplished after 10 minutes of playing with CubicTest. It reminded me of the graphical workflow test for rails Brian Marick was working on.

Last night, I managed to get seleniumrc up and running on my MacBook, then this morning I got cubictest installed and running in eclipse. I think I’ll use it to write tests so I can refactor my ip address validator (the one with the interesting bug I’m keeping in, but the annoying bugs I want to fix).

Finally, Elisabeth shared a pointer to UISpec4J as a good unit test library for Swing.

Lots of other tool goodness happened, too.

Thanks again, Elisabeth, for calling and hosting the event.

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