Archive for January, 2010

A (overlooked?) use case for the Strategy pattern

Posted by Alex Ruiz in API, Opinion on January 28, 2010

Composition over inheritance. It seems that we all agree and understand this valuable principle. I’ve been reading a good amount of code lately from some open source projects (including mine,) and I think we are still missing at least one use case where to apply it. This is what I’ve seen: class A has method [...]

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FEST-Swing 1.2a4: GUI Testing Made Easy

Posted by Alex Ruiz in Java, Open Source, Swing, Testing on January 19, 2010

I’m proud to announce the release of FEST-Swing 1.2a4! FEST-Swing is a Java library that provides a fluent interface for functional Swing GUI testing. This library provides an easy-to-use API that makes creation and maintenance of GUI tests easy. This is the fourth and last alpha release planned for version 1.2. This new release includes [...]

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Thoughts about "UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil"

Posted by Alex Ruiz in Open Source, Opinion, Testing on January 18, 2010

I just finished reading "UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil" by Michael Feathers. Although I agree with many of the ideas in the article, I also think it contains some hasty generalizations and misplaced blame. Mr. Feathers points out that “selling UI test automation tools is irresponsible” and these tools are sold “with a [...]

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Resolutions for 2010

Posted by Alex Ruiz in Personal on January 6, 2010

As an attempt to document my plan for this year, the following are tech-related resolutions for 2010: Learn one or more programming languages. I spent most of 2009 working on FEST. Even though I learned a lot more about Swing, enjoyed writing clean and testable object-oriented code, and implemented many interesting features, all the development [...]

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