Title: Euruko 2005 -- Day one
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:13:26 +0200
Category: Ruby

### Kingsley Hendrickse: Agile Testing with rubySelenium

Overview of the Agile Process
Acceptance TDD
- stories
- test first
- story accepted when all test pass

testing phases
- iterative testing
- system integration and regression testing
- performance testing
- wider user acceptance testing

Selenium is good for test-first development
Easy to use for people of different levels of ability.
Free, not licensing restrictions.

exploratory testing
- unscripted testing
- find potential bugs not considered during design and development

- bugs get scripted

integration testing
- automated and run ASAP

covers three kinds of testing
- development interface testing
- quality assurance
- system integration testing

benefits of the agile process
- fully automated regression tests
- immediate feedback
- create tests with minimal training
- (production) bug fixes are fed back
- confidence in quality

conclusions
- building application around customer's criteria
- bugs ironed out by constant feedback
- better estimations due to constant feedback
- early integration tests with mock interfaces

called "selenium" because of the competitive "mercury"

available via gems

demonstation
- kind of dsl for declaring assumptions about websites

### Armin Roehrl, Watir - Web Application Testing in Ruby

- library to drive IE to make it look like a user is using it
- full access to the DOM over COM
- allows for control structure

### Paul Battley, Using Unicode in Ruby

- what is unicode?
- good and bad sides of unicode
- overview of encodings (ucs-4, utf-32, ucs-2, utf-16, utf-8), endianess
- advantages of utf-8
- "banana skins": BOM, OS capatibilities, byte/char/codepoint/glyph,
  sorting&case, normalization, m$
- strings: arrays-of-bytes, no [], no substrings, #length in bytes
- using iconv (+ //IGNORE)
- windows problems
- whats next? icu & oniguruma
- mischief with unicode

### Sven Köhler, Introduction to Wee

- wee as a clone of seaside
- continuation based
- html generation by code
- wee as "dynamics on the server side" (cf. Ajax)

### Rob McKinnon, Ruby Editor Plugin

### Sven Köhler, Monitoring Enterprise Applications

- at BMW
- trying Ruby and Wee

- Challenges:
  - Procurement (cf Amazon):
   - User, Requisition, Catalogue, Account, Order (all from different systems)
  - Ticket (cf Bugzilla)
  - "RPC over SQL"

### myself, Dynamic Scope and Context-oriented Programming

See http://chneukirchen.org/talks/euruko-2005.

http://yozzeff.blogspot.com/2005/10/ruby-geeks-gathering-euruko-2005.html

### Dinner at Aumeister

NP: KT Tunstall---Black Horse and the Cherry Tree