Monthly Archives: May 2011

Against Helper classes

Posted on May 12, 2011 by hedleyproctor

An interesting blog post: http://www.carlopescio.com/2011/04/your-coding-conventions-are-hurting-you.html For me, the most important point is that when a class is starting to get too large, you shouldn’t just cut and paste a load of methods to a similarly named helper class. Rather, you … Continue reading →

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Tutorial: Writing XPath selectors for Selenium tests

Posted on May 3, 2011 by hedleyproctor

Selenium is the most commonly used web testing framework. It allows you to write tests in Java that can perform standard “web” actions such as filling in forms, clicking buttons etc. Usually, a test will take the following form: Open … Continue reading →

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Cool Groovy features 5 – integration with Ant

Posted on May 3, 2011 by hedleyproctor

The Ant build tool provides a number of really useful features, but when coding in Java it isn’t particularly easy to invoke Ant from your code. Groovy includes Ant and an AntBuilder class that allows you to access it, which … Continue reading →

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