Kito and Daniel are joined by special guest Seb Rose (co-author of The Cucumber for Java Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers). They discuss new releases from Polymer, ICEfaces, PrimeFaces, JBoss EAP, SonarCube, Pitest, IntelliJ IDEA, Serenity, and more. They also discuss Behavior-driven-testing (BDD), Cucumber, Geb, Spock, and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
UI Tier
AngularFaces 2.1.3 has been released!
Polymer 0.8 Release
ICEfaces EE 4.0.0.GA
Includes ICEfaces Mobile Device Simulator
ICEpdf 5.1.2: Now With Enhanced Asian Font Capabilities
PrimeFaces Sentinel 1.2 Released
PrimeFaces 5.2.RC1 Released
Introducing PrimeFaces Spark
Services (Middleware & Microservices) Tier
JBossWS 5.0.0.Final is available!
JBoss EAP 6.4 now available
Mobile
AeroGear iOS SDK v2.3 is out!
Misc
SonarQube 5.1 released – http://www.sonarqube.org/sonarqube-5-1-in-screenshots/
Pitest 1.1.5 released – http://pitest.org
Sonar Pitest Plugin 0.5 released – https://github.com/SonarCommunity/sonar-pitest
JOSRA Git Automated Branching Strategy & Jenkins Plugin – http://www.josra.org/blog/An-automated-git-branching-strategy.html
IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 released – decompiler with extended debugging facilities
Gherkin 3 development continues – https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/cukes/YLKsqbBMBoI/DYhfFx8GBegJ
Serenity 1.0.47 released better Cucumber integration – http://thucydides.info/docs/serenity-staging/
Discussion
Testing with Cucumber and comparison to Geb and Spock – [Cucumber is a collaboration tool – https://cukes.info/blog/2014/03/03/the-worlds-most-misunderstood-collaboration-tool]
Teaching TDD with CyberDojo – http://cyber-dojo.org
- What’s coverage good for? A. Killing mutants efficiently.
Events
No Fluff Just Stuff
Other
Claysnow Limited (Seb Rose’s company)
Liz Keogh’s blog
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests – book by Freeman/Pryce
Dunning-Kruger
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