The analysts and engineers at ModCloth have spent the past year building business intelligence tools to measure their business. Evan Tahler, Jennifer Suit, and Kate Zimmerman describe their agile approach to BI problems and share their process and tools.
See all our talks at http://pivotallabs.com/talks
November First will begin like any other day. I’ll wake up, I’ll shower, I’ll shave, I’ll take the train to work, and then I’ll code all day.
November Second will be a little different. I’ll wake up, I’ll shower, and I’ll shave, and I’ll take the train to work and code. But that shave will be a little shorter, skipping my upper lip. I’ll continue ignoring one part of my face through the end of the month.
Why? Because it’s Movember. And guys still get prostate and testicular cancer.
Last year during Movember, Pivotal Labs helped raise $10,000 of the $7.5M raised in the US for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG to help research and awareness of “dude cancer”.
This year we want to double that amount. But we need your help.
We started a network at Movember called Webstache – a place where anyone in the web development community can start a team, or join a team, or just donate. Our friends at Square have joined the Pivotal teams from San Francisco, Boulder and New York. How about your company?
The mustache I’ll be growing is sad. But not as sad as the fact that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Nothing today
We’re planning database server configuration changes and maintenance work for this Saturday, Oct 29, at 2pm PDT (21:00 UTC). Tracker will be unavailable for approximately one hour.
For the most up to date status information, please follow @pivotaltracker.
“Using Copycopter + WebMock blows up in db:test:prepare”
Try limiting WebMock to load only in the ‘test’ bundler group.
OAuth providers like LinkedIn often pop-up in a new browser window rather than in Javascript so that the user entering their credentials can see the location bar to be sure they are not being phished by the website requesting their credentials. This is great for security, but not so great for Cucumber testing.
Scenario: Sign Up with LinkedIn
When I go to the home page
And I follow "Sign Up"
And I grant LinkedIn access
Then I should be on the new user page
My application has a hyperlink that opens the OAuth login on the OAuth provider’s website in a new window. Let’s presume the simple matter of wiring this up is already coded in my view.
Testing this with Cucumber requires telling the Selenium web driver to interact with the new popup window. We can do this using page.driver.browser.window_handles to find the newest window handle and scoping out actions to that window.
When /^I grant LinkedIn access$/ do
begin
main, popup = page.driver.browser.window_handles
within_window(popup) do
fill_in("Email", :with => "newlee@pivotallabs.com")
fill_in("Password", :with => "password")
click_on("Ok, I'll Allow It")
end
rescue
end
end
And that’s it!
Keep in mind that if you use this test as-is, you will be hitting LinkedIn on the real Internet. This is great if you want a test that will always verify the real API, but not so good for CI, since it is Internet connection-dependent and slow. Consider using something like VCR or Artifice to stub out your service calls.
Frank allows you to write automated acceptance tests for native iOS apps using cucumber. You could describe it as Selenium for iOS. Pete Hodgson from ThoughtWorks shows some Frank tests and demonstrates additional tools that Frank provides.
See all our talks at http://pivotallabs.com/talks
Erik Michaels-Ober, Fellow at Code for America, discusses Travis CI, a modern distributed open-source build system for continuous integration.
The analysts and engineers at ModCloth.com spent the past year building business intelligence tools to measure their business. Evan Tahler, Jennifer Suit, and Kate Zimmerman describe their agile approach to BI problems and share their process and tools.
Frank allows you to write automated acceptance tests for native iOS apps using cucumber. You could describe it as Selenium for iOS. Pete Hodgson from ThoughtWorks shows some Frank tests and demonstrates additional tools that Frank provides.