Gojko Adzic

This is from my presentation on the Robot Framework at the Agile acceptance testing tools round-up event held on 27 May 2009 at Skills Matter

Robot Framework is a keyword-driven test automation framework which empowers testers to
automate and manage complex workflow scripts very efficiently. It is written in Python and supports scripting Python and Java applications (through Jython), but it also has flexible support for remote execution and different system-under-test libraries which allow it to be used for automating Selenium scripts and tools that are not written in Python.
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It was a great pleasure to present yesterday on agile testing tools together with Elizabeth Keogh and David Peterson. Here are the links to the tools that we presented:

• JBehave
• FitNesse
• Concordion
• TextTest
• Robot Framework

You can download my slides from http://gojko.net/resources/skillsmatter_20090527_aattools.pdf. David and Elizabeth will probably publish their slides soon on their blogs, http://blog.davidpeterson.co.uk/ and http://lizkeogh.com/.

Thanks a lot to everyone who attended, and I’m really impressed that the room was almost full especially as we had to compete with the final of the Champions league. As more than half of the people were at the previous agile testing events as well, it seems to me that we’re creating a nice community and I hope that you’ll keep coming to future events as well. The plan for the next few months is this:

• 23/6: Testable Software is Good Software by (David Evans and Mike Scott from SQS UK).
• 22/7: Agile Testing: Tools and Approaches (Nathan Bain and Anand Ramdeo)
• 26/8: Fast Track Test-Driven Development – Testify your project (David Evans and Mike Scott)

All events will be free, but up-front registration is required for capacity planning. You can sign up now for the June event at http://skillsmatter.com/event/design-architecture/testable-software-is-good-software.

Here’s a quick update on the agile acceptance testing tools roundup that will take place this Wednesday in central London. Instead of me doing all the talking, I’ll have two guest speakers doing a lot of work as well.

David Peterson, author of Concordion, and Liz Keogh, project lead of JBehave 2, will be introducing their tools. I will talk about FitNesse, TextTest and Robot Framework.

The event is free but up-front registration is required for capacity planning. We still have some places left, and you can register on:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/open-source-dot-net/acceptance-testing-tools-roundup

The next OpenSource .NET Exchange will take place in central London (the Crypt as usual) on July 16th, starting at 6:30 PM and ending around 10 PM. OpenSource .NET Exchange is a community event aimed at promoting opensource .NET tools and progressive .NET ideas and practices. It is a chance for UK .NET enthusiasts to network and keep an eye on recent advancements in the community.

This mini-conference is free, but up-front registration is required. Last event attracted more than 200 people, so I suggest registering quickly if you plan to attend. Register on http://skillsmatter.com/event/open-source-dot-net/open-source-dot-net-exchange-iii

The line-up so far looks like this:

Ian Cooper: A First Look at Boo

Boo is a ‘wrist-friendly language’ for the CLR that reduces the ‘noise’ of other CLR languages. It’s also a favorite for writing Internal DSLs In this session Ian Cooper will talk about the Boo language from his recent ‘first look’ at the language. As well as covering the basics of why Boo is different Ian will look at the best way for you to get started learning Boo.

Dylan Beattie: Managing Websites with Web Platform Installer and msdeploy

In this talk, Dylan Beattie will show you how to kickstart your web projects using Microsoft’s new Web Platform Installer, and how you can deploy your websites and manage your servers using msdeploy.exe.

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that gives you everything you need to build and host web applications on Windows. It’ll configure your web server and database, install developer tools like Visual Studio and the .NET framework, and supports many popular Web application frameworks including ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Drupal, SubText, WordPress and DotNetNuke.

Scott Cowan: Spark View Engine

Spark is a view engine for the ASP.Net Mvc and MonoRail frameworks. It allows the html to dominate the view in a way your front end developer will love.

David Ross: Introduction to MPI.NET

MPI.NET is a .NET wrapper around the Message Passing Interface which is a used by the majority of super computers and compute clusters for supporting sharing data between compute nodes.

Gojko Adzic: Acceptance testing in English with Concordion .NET

Concordion is an acceptance testing tool that enables developers, testers and business analysts to build executable specifications in free-form HTML. In this talk, Gojko Adzic introduces Concordion.NET, the .NET port of Concordion, and demonstrates it with examples.

Sebastien Lambla: What OpenRasta does other frameworks can’t

Sebastien Lambla will showcase a few strange usages of OpenRasta.

Phil Trelford: F# Units of Measure

The F# programming language has full support for static checking and inference of units-of-measure. In the process Phil show its use with a sample of retro game Lunar Lander.

I’ll be speaking at the first meeting of the Online gaming high scalability special interest group in London on the 9th of July. The main theme of the meeting is using cloud and grid technologies in online gaming/gambling, including the potentials and the challenges. I’ll present an experience report from a recent online casino project implemented on a grid. The event is free, but up-front registration is required for capacity planning. For more information, see http://gamingscalability.org/meetings.php