Update: The 'new' WebUser's name has been changed to ScreenPlay4j. All rererences to the new WebUser below should be taken as 'User'.

At the first Agile Alliance Functional Test Tools workshop, I briefly showed a spike I'd done that illustrated how straight forward it would be to write acceptance tests in code. It was somewhat inspired by work already done on things like JBehave and RSpec. However, while they moved further away from code and towards plain text, I went in the opposite direction.

I'll be giving this presentation at the Agile Approaches for Delivering Business Value conference on 13th February 2008 Novotel Hammersmith, London.

The conference runs over the 12th and 13th of Februaray 2008. See the full programme for more information.

Abstract:
Fit for the future: The future of Agile Acceptance Test Tools

In October 2007, several members of the community gathered in Portland, Oregon, for a workshop to establish a vision and set direction for the next generation of Agile Acceptance Test Driven Development Tools.

[textile]From the "AutAT Website":http://boss.bekk.no/boss/autat/ ...

AutAT -- An Eclipse Plugin for Automatic Acceptance Testing of Web Applications AutAT * is an open source Eclipse plugin, * makes test driven development of web applications easier, * contains a rich graphical editor for specifying how web-sites should function, * is written using the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF),

How would you like it if this happened? Have HTTP::Recorder to create scripts on fly to work with SAMIE module. Personally, i think it would be great to have such recording functionality. But as we know, HTTP::Recorder doesn't support SSL or javascript.... would that effects your tests? really?... Think again...


One way of avoiding/bypassing SSL restriction i could think of is to simply record the scripts with SSL disabled, and then manually just go in and change http to https....