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Comment on SWTBot Getting Started Video Tutorials by Gourav Mehta

Gourav Mehta — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:37:57 +0000

Awesome tutorial… Thanks Ketan

Comment on Using Models In Rails Migrations by Vijay Aravamudhan

Vijay Aravamudhan — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:09:14 +0000

Two points:
1) If your model somehow depends on querying a 3rd party service to validate something (even though that is a BAd idea in and of itself, but, some domain require things like this), then using the model in your migration enforces that the other system is up and running during your deploy – BAD idea!
2) Totally related, but tangential, we encounntered situations where the data was inserted into the db using sql, and finally we are left with losing data integrity. To counter this, we wrote a rails plugin called active_record_validator. Send me an email offline if you are interested in talking abt this or looking at the code.

Comment on Using Models In Rails Migrations by Greg Gigon

Greg Gigon — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:42:40 +0000

I think that fundamental problem of your first migration is that it is not a migration.

You have migrated database and created an entry using the same script.

Migrations are there to modify database, not create data in it.

Greg

Comment on SWTBot Release updated for Helios by Ketan

Ketan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:03:33 +0000

@dan

Great to hear that redcar is using SWTBot!

To answer your question, I think the tests might be running on a ui thread. Check to see if SWTUtils.isUIThread() (http://goo.gl/LBIt) is false within your UI tests.

Drop a note on the swtbot-dev mailing list (https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/swtbot-dev) or the forums (http://eclipse.org/forums/eclipse.swtbot) if you’re unable to get this resolved.

I’m myself trying to put together simple cucumber based swtbot tests for making it easier to script things, so I’m happy to help resolve any issues you might have.

Comment on SWTBot Release updated for Helios by Daniel Lucraft

Daniel Lucraft — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:54:25 +0000

Hey

LOVING swtbot so far. Could you help me out with something?

When my tests (run through cucumber and using swt, jface, jruby and the SwtBot class alone) finish, they hang. Is there a thread internal to swtbot that is still active? Is there a way to tell swtbot that testing is over?

thanks
Dan

Comment on Code Complexity Visualization for Ruby by Antoine Toulme

Antoine Toulme — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:12:02 +0000

Added to Buildr!

Comment on An embedded interpreter for eclipse by Suhari

Suhari — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:34:42 +0000

eclipse just great natural phenomena…

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Comment on Know your users’ brains by Ketan

Ketan — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:34:30 +0000

@Ralf,

So “plain wrong” is probably an oversimplification for most developers who forget the unit tests part in the middle.

UI/integration tests are generally are bad at pinpointing reasons for failures apart from telling you that a button did not appear or something did not have the right label on it.

Having UI/integration tests is infinitely more valuable than having no tests at all.

TDD for the most part (for me personally) is about unit tests, short quick feedback cycles that let me know that the change I made does not break existing functionality.

Integration/UI tests don’t always fit that bill of quick feedback cycles and for the most part developers have a tendency to take shortcuts when tests take too long to run.

Comment on Run JRuby From Within A Jar And Package Your Own Gems Along by Ketan

Ketan — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:22:50 +0000

@Reino:

Thanks for that input! I’ll update the blog post accordingly.