Testing Comics: Little Bobby Tables

Hello all and sorry for the very long pause.

I couldn’t help myself sharing with you all the following comic, which unfortunately is a real use case and if not treated can lead to a real disaster:

Little Bobby Tables

A new version of Flex Module for Apache and IIS is out

A new version of Flex Module for Apache and IIS is out on labs. You can find the Release Notes here.

Now together with the Flex SDK that has been released as open source under MPL license and the Flex Module for Apache and IIS, the development of flex applications has become more accessible.

Enjoy it! :D

Map of Online Communities

Here is a very interesting map that displays in a funny way the online communities.Map of Online Communities
The size of the geographic area represents the estimated size of the membership.

Stress Testing vs Load Testing

When it comes for Stress Testing and Load Testing some people say that this is the same thing. Well they are wrong.

Stress Testing - Is the process where you are modifying your application resources( RAM, processor, disk space, etc) and then you are testing the application to see how it behaves with less or more resources.

Load Testing - Is the process were your application is running with all the resources setup to normal and you are testing the application by overloading it with requests or data(for example if you have a web server that was build to serve 10 requests/h, test it to see how it behaves against 100 requests/h).

Flex going open Source

Adobe just announced that Flex sdk will be open sourced under Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript libraries from the SDK.

More details you can find here.

Kuler - Create and Share color themes

Have you ever had problems creating color themes for your websites?

Adobe Kuler - Create and Share Color Themes

Now you can Explore + Create + Share color themes very easily with Kuler.

Enjoy it! :d

The Artemis java framework is out in alpha

The Artemis project is out in alpha and can be downloaded from here.

This is a community based project aimed to bind external libraries to Flex / Flash environment. Artemis allows developers to create libraries in Java and then bind them to the Flex / Flash environment. More informations about this can be found here.

Sahi - Another free automation and testing tool for web applications

This is Sahi, a free, open source automation and testing tool for web applications (much like Selenium) which can be integrated with ant to create automated tests. For more details you can watch the Flash Demo.

Here you can find to Features list.

One of this days I will try to post an entire tutorial on how to use it in order to build and run automated tests.

SearchCoders/DashBoard Apollo application

The guys from SearchCoders have build a very interesting Apollo application which gives you the possibility to search multiple flex resources(ex: flexcoders yahoo group, adobe consulting, searchcoders) at once. The application also gives you the possibility of saving complex search queries for later use.

SearchCoders/DashBoard

You can download and install the application from here.

TechDay: Flex Automated Tests with FlexUnit + Ant

If you were wondering how to automatically test flex applications now you will find the answer here. Starting from a post written by Peter Martin I will explain to you how to use FlexUnit and Ant to automatically test a flex project that contains a calculator.
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