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CFUNITED-06 interview 20: John Paul Ashenfelter - Testing ColdFusion Applications
Author: Michael Smith
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:45999#240844
In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news:
* NEW Scheduler Program is here and ready!
* SATURDAY REPEATS ANNOUNCED!!!!
* Popular sessions Survey WINNER announced.
* AJAX pre-conference class is now full.
* CFUNITED 2006 will be available on video after the event
* Order a DVD copy of CFUNITED 2005 recordings and materials/laptop bag
* Fusetalk Forum on CFUNITED Talk to other Attendees.
* CFLive - Thursday 12:30pm - John Paul Ashenfelter on Agile Programming
* Interview with John Paul Ashenfelter on Testing CF Applications
CFUNITED is the premier ColdFusion Conference near
Washington DC 6/28-7/1/06 (Four whole days!)
Check out speakers and topics at http://www.cfunited.com/
- Michael Smith
TeraTech, Inc
Q: How [CFUNITED] will help in my current job?
CFUNITED Alumni Tony W. said:
1. Networking opp. with the HIGHEST Rated CF'ers in the business.
2. New techniques for legacy functionality
3. New applications for the new features
4. industry partners with lots to offer will be there
5. Q&A Sessions, BOF Sessions, Roundtable Chats with Industry experts
It's a highly valuable event that will connect you with the ColdFusion
community like no other event.
- Tony
Exciting Opportunity Available! TeraTech is seeking a creative and
energetic
PT or FT ColdFusion Developer to help maintain the CFUNITED website. For
more details:
http://cf.teratech.com/index.cfm?go=About.JobDetail&JobID=11
Conference and training news
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* Upcoming TeraTech classes
Cost $59 - $349 see http://www.teratech.com/training/ for more details
and registration
FB101 - Intro to Fusebox May 23 2006
FB201 - Intermediate Fusebox Jun 6 2006
CF209 - Upgrade to CFMX 7 Jun 13 2006
* CF209 - Upgrading to CFMX 7 (new class)
Are you new to CFMX 7? Do you want to learn all the new features fast?
This class will get you upto
speed on it all: Flash forms, XML forms, PDF generation, headers and
footers, the report builder,
sub reports, event gateways, CFC new features, Web Services, Verity
enhancements, CF Application
Framework, CF Administrator API and what is new in CF Administrator.
* Pre-conference classes
Cost $449 see http://www.cfunited.com/classes06.cfm for more details and
registration
Location: Bethesda North Marriott and Conference Center
CU210 Leader of the Pack (strategies for building better software) -
Simon Horwith - Monday 6/26
CU211 Fundamentals of Relational Database - Kurtis D. Leatham - Monday 6/26
CU212 ColdFusion Server Administration: JRun J2EE Deployment - Adam
Wayne Lehman - Monday 6/26
CU213 Testing ColdFusion - John Paul Ashenfelter - Monday 6/26
CU214 Ajax intensive for ColdFusion Developers - Rob Gonda - Tuesday
6/27 (FULL!)
CU215 XML, XPath, and XSLT for ColdFusion Developers - Jeff Peters -
Tuesday 6/27
CU216 Domain Modeling - Hal Helms - Tuesday 6/27
CU217 Beyond Basic SQL for CF - Nate Nelson - Tuesday 6/27
CFUNITED NEWS!
* We are excited to present our new AJAX based SCHEDULER PROGRAM!!
Personalize your schedule and
reserve the sessions you want to attend. http://www.cfunited.com/scheduler/
You must be registered for CFUNITED to use this program. This program
was created by Joe Danziger.
* SATURDAY REPEATS ANNOUNCED! We have finally decided on our repeat
sessions for Saturday based on
your survey responses. Thanks for your patience. The Saturday Schedule
will also be added to the
Scheduler soon. For now, view repeats at
http://www.cfunited.com/schedule.cfm
* SURVEY WINNER OF A FREE TICKET TO CFUNITED IS.........Casey Dougall
from New York!
Congrats! Claim your prize at info @ teratech.com
Thank you to everyone who filled out the survey we can't wait to see you
in June!
* CFUNITED/Video! http://www.cfunited.com/video_recordings.cfm
Can't make it to the event?
Attending but want to see sessions that you can't get to?
Want to see a favorite session again to learn even more?
Buy CFUNITED/Video and watch whenever you want from you own computer!
$649 includes the show bag and goodies that attendees receive. Sample
video and more information
coming soon. This price is a license for one named individual to view
the video - if you need a
site license for multiple viewers contact Liz at liz (at) teratech.com
CFUNITED 2006 Attendees get $400 off the price!
Already registered for CFUNITED but want the videos too? Upgrade for
just $200 to both attend and
get videos of all sessions.
* See list of prizes from our sponsors. http://www.cfunited.com/prizes.cfm
* Order a DVD copy of CFUNITED 2005's recordings on MP3
http://www.cfunited.com/dvd_recordings.cfm
All sessions were recorded at CFUNITED-05, but there were technical
problems that left a portion of
the session's MP3 recordings inaudible. This disc includes all the
audible recordings. We apologize
if any of your favorite sessions are not available for your listening.
Also, you can order your own copy plus the 2005 bookbag and materials!
-Limited Supply-
* Adobe Press offers CFUNITED attendees 35% off books!
Register for CFUNITED and use your login to receive benefits.
http://www.cfunited.com/attendeepage.cfm
Develop your ColdFusion chops with the best books for the
web development community!
* CFUNITED SPECIAL EVENTS
ColdFusion Celebration
Hosted by Adobe, TeraTech, and Hostmysite
Drinks, games, raffles. Join us for another year of ColdFusion Fun.
Location: Bethesda North Marriott Terrace
Starting time: 7:15pm Thursday, June 29th
MiniMAX 4 http://www.minimaxconference.com/
Can't go to CFUNITED? Come to this FREE event!
Hosted by Adam Bell
Location: Brookside Room, Bethesda North Marriott Conference Center,
Lower Level
Starting Time: 8:00pm
Attendee Get Together http://www.cfunited.com/attendee_dinner.cfm
See old CFUNITED buddies before the big show! Make new friends!
Hosted by CFDynamics
Location: Dave and Busters, Approximately 3 blocks from Bethesda North
Marriott
Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm
* 48% of our Pre-Conference Classes are full. Be sure to reserve your
seat today!
Class CU214 is full
http://www.cfunited.com/classes06.cfm
* The First 750 registrations will get our cool new laptop book bag,
courtesy of our platinum and
gold sponsors! Don't settle for the tote, register today! See photo at
http://www.cfunited.com/bag.cfm
* 588 people are already registered for CFUNITED-06 and the main hotel
is full! See overflows.
(That is more people than the same time last year).
* Fusetalk Forum now on CFUNITED! Start talking to other registered
conference attendees today.
If you are registered as an attendee, login into
http://www.cfunited.com/login.cfm
Discuss topics, arrange ride sharing or meeting at the event. Thanks
Fusetalk for letting
CFUNITED use your cool message board! See http://www.fusetalk.com/ for
more info.
* We have overflow hotels:
Bethesda Marriott (approx. 1.5 miles from conference center)
--This hotel has about 10 rooms left per night--
$170 per night
5151 Pooks Hill Road Bethesda MD 20814
To make reservations call: 1.800.228.9290
Use the group code: CFU
The only dates that are provided under the group rate are June 27th -
July 1st, 2006
A shuttle bus will be available back and forth from the conference
center to this location.
Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center Rockville (approx. 2 miles
from conference center)
$249 per night
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville MD 20852
To make reservations call: 1-301-468-1100 or go to
http://www.doubletree.com/
Use the group code: TER
The only dates that are provided under the group rate are June 27th -
July 1st, 2006
The metro line is located across the street. Take the metro line from
Twinbrook to White Flint for
the conference center.
*CFLive
Hear CFUNITED speakers from your office via breeze talks every Thursday
12:30pm - 1pm EST. Learn
new tips and ask questions live.
CFLive! John Paul Ashenfelter Agile Programming
Thursday, May 18, 12:30 PM US/Eastern
http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4893861/
Future talks:
5/26/06 Simon Horwith Architecture
6/1/06 Nate Nelson Advanced SQL Programming
http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4893862/
6/8/06 Rob Gonda CLASS Ajax intensive for ColdFusion Developers
http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4919519/
6/15/06 Doug Ward Fundamentals of Good Usability
http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/events/4919541/
* Only 6 more weeks until CFUNITED (41 days).
* Can't afford to come for 4 days? Or can't take time off work during the
week? Come to our Saturday only CFUNITED event.
* Full time students and umemployed programmers substantial discounts
available - email liz (at)
teratech.com for your discount code.
* We still have opportunites for sponsorship available to companies.
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And now our CFUNITED spotlight interview.
Michael Smith: This time we are talking with John Paul Ashenfelter about
his CFUNITED-06
talk "Testing CF Applications". So why should a developer come to your
session John Paul ?
John Paul Ashenfelter: Well, in my experience very few CF applications
are comprehesively,
routinely, and *automatically* tested. And as Bruce Eckels (author of
Thinking in Java among other
classics) says, "If it's not tested, it's broken". The goal of my
session is to show developers
what kinds of testing they can (and should be doing), what tools are
available for testing their
applications and how they can use those tools to make sure their own
applications are not "broken".
MS: What kind of testing do you think developers should be doing?
JPA: Web applications can be tested at a number of different levels --
from unit-testing individual
components up through load-testing the entire application. I think CF
developers are becoming more
aware of unit-testing at the CFC level using tools like CFUnit and
CFCUnit, especially with the
growing awareness of test-driven development methodologies like Extreme
Programming and SCRUM
MS -interjection about the CFUnit/CFCUnit talks if there are any-
JPA: My focus though, is on testing larger chunks of the application,
methods that operate on
individual pages or a multi-page path through part of a web application.
This is the kind of
testing that many developers (and QA teams) do in an adhoc fashion by
clicking through an
application. Some of the tools in the talk are focused on automating
this sort of testing -- tools
that let you capture an entire chunk of user behavior, standardize it,
and automate it so that
developers can spend more time on development and QA folks can spend
more time on, well, quality.
MS: You're talking about functional .
JPA: Exactly. Functional testing ensures that the application functions
as intended. Whenever a
developer clicks through the registration process or makes a purchase to
see if the
application "works", they are doing functional testing. I personally
think it's better to let the
computer do that sort of boring, repetitive work because that's what
computers are good at -- doing
the same thing over and over, exactly the same every time.
MS: Sounds like you're also talking about regression testing.
JPA: That too. Regression testing is running the same set of tests
against a new version of the
code to ensure that functionality is still the same. Once you've got
functional tests, bundling
those up into a suite of tests that you can run over and over gives you
regression testing.
MS: That sounds pretty complicated. These tools must be expensive and
complicated!
JPA: Well, there *are* expensive tools for this sort of thing, but as
anyone who's seen me speak
knows, I'm really focused on the open source world and there are
excellent open source tools for
doing functional and regression tests on CF applications. We're going to
focus on using the open
source Selenium tool for building functional tests and then automate
those tests to create a
regression test suite.
MS: Wow! But what about load-testing?
JPA: Well, there's plenty of expensive tools for that, and a number of
open source tools. One of
the standard load-testing tools is an application called Grinder.
MS: So you're going to show us how to put our applications *through* the
Grinder.
JPA: Um. Yeah. Exactly.
MS: So is there anything else you'll cover other than functional testing
with Selenium and load
testing with Grinder?
JPA: I'll be lucky to cover all of that in an hour! But I will mention a
few other tools like
DBUnit for setting databases back to a standard state, which is very
important when testing web
applications. And I'd also mention integrating validation tools into the
testing process to ensure
that your web applications generate valid (X)HTML pages.
MS: Sounds like you'd need a whole day to talk about those things!
JPA: Hey, great idea. How about I teach a full-day class before CFUnited
on testing CF applications?
MS: Sounds like a plan, we have scheduled a whole day class on this!
http://www.cfunited.com/classes06.cfm
Looking forward to seeing you at CFUNITED.
You can see more interviews at http://www.cfunited.com/interviews.cfm
CFUNITED-06 is Wed 6/28/06 - Sat 7/1/06 in Bethesda MD, just outside
Washington DC.
It costs $649 until 1/31/06 then $749. For more information on CFUNITED see
http://www.cfunited.com/
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Testing CF Applications
*************************
Test-driven development is very popular in the Java and Ruby worlds and
becoming moreso in the
ColdFusion world. This session covers the tools that are available to
test ColdFusion applications
and discusses how to implement them into your existing workflow. We'll
specifically cover:
* CFCUnit/CFUnit for testing ColdFusion code
* Selenium for testing web pages
* DBUnit for managing the database during testing
* Grinder (and similar) load-testing tools
Together, these tools can provide unit, functional, regression, and load
tests for your
applications. Finally, we'll touch on automating these tests so you can
ensure that you are
delivering higher-quality, well-tested code.
Speaker Bio:
John Paul Ashenfelter is CTO of TransitionPoint.com, where he builds
web-based business
applications using a mix of open source tools, ColdFusion, and Java. He
has been the technical lead
on a number of ColdFusion projects for startups as well as regularly
serving as an architect for
existing ColdFusion sites converting to Fusebox. A ColdFusion developer
since version 2.0, John
Paul has written several books covering ColdFusion, contributed articles
to CFDJ, and spoken at
several ColdFusion conferences.
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* Speakers include top names like Simon Horwith, Charlie Arehart,
Hal Helms, Michael Dinowitz, Ray Camden, Ben Forta and many more respected
CF authors and presenters.
* Great tracks:
* Bootcamp - Basic ColdFusion and Flash topics
* Advanced - Advanced ColdFusion topics
* Manager/Empowered - Fusebox and Project management topics
* Flex/RIA - Flash, Flex and other technologies integrated with CF topics
* Accessibility / usability - section 508, CSS and disabled access
* Deployment/Platform - tuning, install issues, OS, picking a database
* Included in your full conference registration is the following:
* Attendence for 4 days (6/28/2006-7/1/2006)
* Keynote and General Sessions
* All conference sessions including repeat sessions on Saturday
* Entrance to Expo Area
* Networking Events
* Badge and Badge holder with bar scan code
* Free Lunch for each show day (Dinner is not included)
* Access to all presentations after the event, including all the
recordings.
* Promotional bag with materials including show guide, CD, coupons,
etc.
* Opportunity to participate in all raffle drawings
* Can't stay 4 days Wed - Sat? Optional 3-day and Saturday only packages
available too. Saturday will consist of repeats the most popular
sessions
from the week - something many attendees asked for last year!
* The price is $849 for all four days of CFUNITED-06
Price expires 4-day 3-day Saturday-only
Early Bird 01/31/2006 $649 $549 $249
Timely Bird 03/31/2006 $749 $649 $299
Regular 06/16/2006 $849 $749 $349
Late 06/28/2006 $949 $849 $399
Door 06/29/2006 $1049 $949 $449
Be one of the first 750 registrations and you will get the Awesome
Laptop Bookbag instead of the
average tote.
Register today at
http://www.cfunited.com/
--
Due to TeraTech's growth we are seeking winning sales people
to sell custom software. For more details:
http://www.teratech.com/index.cfm?go=About.JobDetail&JobID=3
Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc
405 E Gude Dr Ste 207, Rockville MD 20850
Voice: +1-301-424-3903 x110 Fax:301-762-8185
Web: http://www.teratech.com/sig/
Email: mailto:michael@teratech.com ICQ: 66057682
Winner in CFDJ awards Best Consulting. Member Team
Fusebox.
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