I’ll be giving a presentation on Selenium and Ant next Tuesday (November 6th) at the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group. See the TACFUG site for location and details.
I’ll be showing how to setup and use Selenium and the Selenium IDE to create and run tests, and I’ll be giving a brief version of my [...]
Tag Archives: Ant
TACFUG Presentation: Selenium and Ant
October 31, 2007 – 12:42 pm
15 Ant Tips
October 26, 2007 – 2:18 pm
Saw this on DZone - Dan presents 15 Tips for Better Ant Builds.
I’ve been looking at my Ant scripts lately trying to figure out how to improve them and I’m going to implement some of Dan’s tips. Especially #9 - using an external property file to hold my configuration info. I also like his [...]
Molybdenum? Another Selenium Interface
October 26, 2007 – 11:43 am
I was setting up a laptop to start working on my upcoming Selenium presentation and entered ‘Selenium’ in the Firefox addon search box. Selenium IDE popped up and so did “Molybdenum”…
After a quick download and install:
Molybdenum is based on Selenium and enhances it with direct browser integration and a visual editor. At the same [...]
Virtual Ant
October 19, 2007 – 8:11 am
Today Virtual Ant was released…
With Virtual Ant you no longer have to get your hands dirty with XML to create or edit Ant build scripts. Work in a completely virtualized environment similar to Windows Explorer and run your tasks on a Virtual File System to see what they do, in real time, without affecting [...]
Getting Started With Selenium
September 24, 2007 – 8:29 am
Recently I’ve been messing around with trying out a few different web testing tools.
Canoo WebTest
OpenQA: Selenium
Canoo looked neat with it’s Ant syntax - but I could not find a user friendly way to create my tests. There was a Firefox plugin but it was unintuitive to use. I also found [...]
Compressing JS and CSS with Ant
September 13, 2007 – 11:43 am
Mike Henke sent me a great link to this article: Building Web Applications With Apache Ant.
It's a great article but one section - "Minify your JavaScript and CSS files" really caught my eye. I've been using more and more jQuery code and related plugins in my projects (as well as more CSS) and [...]
Using The Ant FTP Task
July 24, 2007 – 10:02 am
Tonight I'm giving an Ant presentation at our ColdFusion user group and wanted to show an example of how to use the FTP task. At work we have direct access to our servers so I haven't had the need to use FTP yet so I had to do some reading. FTP oddly [...]
Ant Version 1.6.x vs. 1.7.x and Eclipse 3.3
July 19, 2007 – 11:40 am
I recently upgraded to Eclipse 3.3 and CFEclipe 1.3.1.5 and have had no problems - until today.
I'm working on some example Ant scripts for an upcoming presentation - and kept getting an error when trying to do very simple builds using an INPUT task:
BUILD FAILED
E:\workspace\helloworld\build.xml:30: jave.lang.NullPointerException
This was on a laptop on which I had just [...]