Archive for April, 2011

Moving to a new home

April 29th, 2011

As of May 2nd I will no longer be employed at Source Allies. My blog has a new home at http://blog.sudr.info. Feel free to follow me there.

Rethinking the DAO-Service layer relationship

April 8th, 2011

Lately I have been thinking that the standard service-calling-the-dao-layer architecture hasn’t been working out as well as I would hope. The applications I have been working on have been using Spring and Hibernate with a dao object per model object. While this does provide a good separation between the two, I have been finding it increasingly difficult to write good tests for the service layer as the project matures. Past experience has shown that if writing tests is difficult, then it just isn’t done. Follow along as I think about possible ways to address this issue.
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Selenium IDE – Part II

April 1st, 2011

In Part I we covered

  • Setting Up
  • Recording Tests
  • Playing Back Tests
  • Saving Test Cases
  • Resuming Recording
  • Saving Test Suites

All examples will use the sample site https://sites.google.com/site/example4selenium/.

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