Talk on Flex Automation Framework at Boston Flex UG

January 8, 2009 on 6:20 pm | In Flex, Programming | 3 Comments

My friend Eric Hilfer of Tom Snyder Productions is going to be giving the next Boston Flex User Group talk on Tuesday January 13, and I honestly expect this to be one of the most useful and informative talks that we’ve had so far in the UG.  This is partly because Eric combines brilliance with a talent for communicating ideas, and he’d be worth seeing even if he was talking about something everyday.  However, he is not talking about an everyday subject: he’s presenting on one of the most useful and (unfortunately) most obscure aspects of Flex, namely the Flex Automation Framework.  This framework is a set of capabilities built into Flex that allow automated operation (and hence, repeatable testing) of a Flex-based user interface. How many people do you know who have built real, working test suites for complex applications using this mechanism?  I know exactly one: Eric.  So… my point is: if you’re building something in Flex and you care about its quality, you should come see this talk!

3 Comments

3 Comments »

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

  1. Just listened to you on The Flex Show. I’m a Computer Science grad student and Flex developer. NoteFlight.com is amazing. Well done.

    Has this talk by Eric been posted online anywhere? I looked on the Boston FUG site but didn’t find any notes. My ears perked up when you talked about functional testing as I’ve been facing the same problem with an app I’m working on.

    Comment by Daniel — January 27, 2009 #

  2. You might want to check out FlexMonkey, which is a testing framework for Flex apps that uses the automation api to record.

    http://code.google.com/p/flexmonkey/

    Comment by Mark — February 11, 2009 #

  3. Yup – FlexMonkey came up at this session (sorry, still do not have the notes from Eric) and it sounded really useful!

    Comment by joe — February 11, 2009 #

Leave a comment

XHTML: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Entries and comments feeds. Valid XHTML and CSS.
All content copyright (c) 2006-2007 Joseph Berkovitz. All Rights Reserved.