Everyone Else Is Doing It...

Registration is now open for XP Day 6 in London on November 27-28. The programme is also now available on the website. There is a great set of sessions spread over two days on various aspects of agile development, from the hard core technical to the much more people focussed. Places are limited, and always sell out quickly, so make sure to register early.

I've written a fair bit about literate testing in the past. With some support from my current employer Kizoom, the framework I have been working on has now been published as open source on java.net. We've called it LiFT.

Here is the LiFT page on java.net. Please try it out and let us know if you have any feedback.

For more background, see the video of the presentation Tom White and I gave at the Google London Test Automation Conference.

Thanks to all who have contributed code and ideas to get us this far. We hope there is a bright future for LiFT.

The conference was held on the 7th and 8th of September in London. There was a wide range of talks over two days on various aspects of automated testing. In London, Google focus on mobile development and it was heartening to hear that they also think testing applications to be accessed through a large number of different devices is a hard problem, and that they don't have all the answers. There was an interesting talk on performance testing from Goranka Bjedov of Google. She advocated the use of open source tools like Grinder and JMeter. There were other interesting talks on testing ajax applications (Joe Walnes and Adam Connors), testing different browsers (Jason Huggins) and deployment environments (Steve Loughran), and testing wireless networks (Karl Garcia).

Tom White and I gave a talk about the development and use of our framework for Literate Functional Testing. This generated a lot of interest. Thanks to everyone for their comments and questions. We hope to be open sourcing the project soon.

All of the talks were recorded, and are now available online on Google video. The slides from the literate testing talk are also available here as a pdf file.