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Test-Driven Google Web Toolkit article in the GWT documentation

Sumit Chandel at Google has posted "Testing Methodologies Using Google Web Toolkit" in the official GWT documentation, an adaptation of my take on test-driven GWT.  You can find it in the articles section of the GWT project page. 

The example test code has been rewritten in EasyMock, which means you can now find an example in both JMock (in my original article) and EasyMock.

Thanks to Sumit for his feedback on the original article, and now for sharing it with the GWT community.

Test-First GWT article in November 2008 Better Software Magazine

Part two of my series on Google Web Toolkit, "Google Web Toolkit: Writing Ajax Applications Test First" (download article), is now in print in the November 2008 issue of Better Software magazine.  This article is a tutorial on applying Test Driven Development practices to build GWT applications.  It introduces GWT's testing support including GWTTestCase, describes the Model-View-Presenter design pattern, and includes test and production code samples.

Thanks again to my reviewers for their suggestions and feedback: Steve Berczuk, Paul Infield-Harm, Mushfeq Khan, Joe Leo, Michelle Osborne and Ariel Valentin.  Big thanks to Sumit Chandel of the GWT team for his technical feedback and editing and to Steve Freeman for his help with the JMock example.  Thanks to Lee Copeland, Chuck Allison, Heather Shanholtzer and the team at Better Software Magazine for the opportunity and excellent technical editing.

See the Sticky Notes online for infrastructure tips, GWTTestCase gotchas, and additional reference materials.

Part one of the series was published in the October 2008 issue.

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Related posts:

• Strategies for testing GWT Widgets and View Components
• Testing JSON parsing using JavaScript Overlay Types in GWT 1.5

Ariel's new blog series on applying Ruby techniques in Java

My colleague Ariel at Cyrus Innovation has started a new series of blog posts entitled "How Ruby made me into a better Java developer".  In this series, he's going to be talking about he and his team applied many of the techniques from Ruby and Rails to a Java web application.

I've seen some of the changes the team has made and I was impressed; I especially liked the way they built action tests that could check the view (just like Rails functional tests).

I'm looking forward to reading the whole series!