Posted by James Mead Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:32:38 GMT
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Posted by James Mead Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:17:00 GMT
I just realised I forgot to celebrate my second Reevoo birthday.
So to make up for that I just worked out (not very scientifically) that in the 2 years 2 months I’ve been working at Reevoo, I’ve travelled almost twice round the world by GNER train. And that doesn’t include my travel on London commuter trains, tubes & buses…
Distance from Durham to London Kings Cross = 232 miles as the crow flies1.
Journeys per week = 2
Number of weeks (excluding holidays) = 48 + 48 + 8 = 104
Total distance travelled = 104 * 2 * 232 = 48,256 miles
Earth’s circumference = 24,901 miles according to About.com
Twice round the world = 2 * 24,901 = 49,802 miles
Anyway, I’m tired and that was tricky maths, so I’ve probably made a mistake. Probably time to go to bed.
1 according to Google Maps Distance Measurement Tool
Posted by James Mead Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:28:00 GMT
My colleague Ben has just published a Rails plugin which should simplify setting up Selenium Remote Control to run acceptance tests for your Rails app. So read his article and give it a whirl.
Selenium tests run directly in the browser. You can run the same Selenium test against different browsers e.g. for browser compatability testing (all mainstream JavaScript-enabled browsers are supported). You can also use Selenium to test Ajax-based web applications. If you’re not familiar with Selenium, have a read about it and watch some tests run in your browser.
Jason Huggins gave a talk at the London Test Automation Conference on recording screencast-style movies during execution of Selenium tests as a way to generate up-to-date documentation. I was interested, because we’d knocked a similar idea around the office a few weeks previously.
He tried to demo it as part of a continuous integration setup with CruiseControl. Unfortunately his ambitious demo, involving Parallels Desktop, multiple virtual machines, multiple operating systems, multiple languages & multiple browsers, didn’t quite work during the talk itself, but I did see it working afterwards – it was pretty neat.
Posted by James Mead Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:55:00 GMT
Last week I was at Google’s inaugural London Test Automation Conference where I particularly enjoyed the talk by Adam Connors and Joe Walnes entitled “Does my button look big in this? Building Testable AJAX Applications”. It should be out on Google Video any day now (as are all the talks) and is well worth a look.
It was also good to hear from Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman about the new developments in JMock
Tomorrow I’m off to RailsConf Europe. Should be fun.
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