Meeting Notes for August 3, 2011

Who Came:

• Clark Archer
• Marybel Archer
• John Barnhart
• Dan Hedges
• Lance Purple
• Ron Romero
• Greg Symons

What we did:

This week was our first meeting at our new location at DrillingInfo’s headquarters. For all the newcomers, we did the WordWrap kata, since it’s simple.

Things for future meetings

• Trying different frameworks

  Given some of the content at the recent No Fluff Just Stuff, there is some interest in playing with different testing frameworks. Greg mentioned two frameworks specifically for working with acceptance testing on web applications, Spock and Geb.

  • Spock is a BDD test framework built on top of JUnit and written in Groovy. It is a generic test framework that can be used for any testing application.

    http://spockframework.org

  • Geb is a Groovy library that is built on top of Selenium and provides a nice DSL for driving interaction with a web page. It’s real strength is in its DSL feature for creating Page Objects.

    http://www.gebish.org

• Trying different languages

  There was also interest expressed in working in languages other than Java, both on and off the JVM. Nothing definite was decided but some examples that came up were:

  • Scala
  • Clojure
  • Erlang

  Another possibility might be taking a look at the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book by Brian Tate.

Next Meeting

The consensus around the table was that next meeting we should take a look at Spock and Geb.

Our next meeting will be August 17, 2011. Sign up now!