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PureMVC - Slacker - A PureMVC/Flex Deferred Instantiation Demo

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:52:34 -0000

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PureMVC FlexUnit testing proxies : Developmentastic

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:22:10 -0000

Adding the ability to FlexUnit to listen to PureMVC notifications

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The FlexUnit TestCase class provides the addAsync() factory method used to attach event handlers to EventDispatchers in order to test asynchronous events.

Proxies send Notifications; they don't dispatch events. How are my unit tests supposed to listen for named Notifications instead of events?

I created a very basic example project you can run to see how it works first hand.

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Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:49:55 -0000

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flexcoders : RIA Development with Adobe Flex

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:48:12 -0000

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Unit Tests for my pureMVC proxies with asyncronous data.

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:04:20 -0000

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Testing with mock objects is the way you do this sort of thing

What to mock is the service.

In your Proxy, rather than instantiating the service in the constructor with a 'new HTTPService' (or which ever component you're using), you could instead call a private 'createService()' method, which creates and sets the property that holds the service in the Proxy.

the problem becomes how to get that method overridden with one that returns a mock service.

Here is a thread about an AS3 mock framework:
http://thefoundry.anywebcam.com/index.php/actionscript/mock-as3-released-a-mock-object-library-for-actionscript-3/

This is essentially what I did, but my command that initiates the proxies calls a 'retrieveData()' public method. So this way when I instantiate my proxy in my unit tests I can just pass my mock data to the proxy's constructor.

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mock-as3 - a Mock Object library for ActionScript 3

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:01:55 -0000

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Testing practices for Pure MVC

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:13:09 -0000

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One approach that is working for us is to create unit tests using FlexUnit and use them to test all methods and classes that do not directly alter view components. Commands and proxies for the most part can be tested and some code in mediators.

To pull this off, I created a special extension of Facade that stores notifications in an ArrayCollection instead of immediately sending them. Then I added additional methods to check to see if a notification had been sent (added to the internal array collection), actually send the notification, and retrieve the notification. Using this version of facade, I'm able to create test data for the body of a notification that will normally trigger a command. Send that notification and verify that the facade has it, then really send the notification. The command as it processes sends additional notifications. The command sent notifications are stored in the facade and not immediately sent. Code in my unit test checks whether the correct notifications were sent and if the body of those notifications is as expected. Once they have been checked, I can tell the special facade to really send them and again check to see if the correct follow on notifications are sent.

This approach is working well checking the flow of notifications and command executions. Overriding sendNotification to save the notification is easy--just store the notification in an array collection. Checking for stored notifications requires that you loop through all entries in the array collection checking for the notification name. Really sending a perviously stored notification just requires doing a super.SendNotificaiton call.

You can also use this intercepting facade concept to do logging of notification traffic for instance to analyze the way an application is being used by looking at how the users invoke the use cases.

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unit testing, how to start

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:54:01 -0000

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If you search these forums for 'unit test', you'll find most of the advice centers around testing pieces in isolation. An undesirable effect of the Singletons can be the inability to start each test with a fresh set of core actors.

An interesting 'feature' of MultiCore in regards to testing is that you can have a fresh core for each test. Just use a unique Multiton key each time. So even if you're not using modules or loaded swfs with separate 'cores' running in them, the testing side of things may make MultiCore a little more attractive.

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DeveloperGuide - mock4as - Google Code

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:40:47 -0000

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For example you may have an object that is used to generate a greeting message when a user logs on to your website. For localization purposes, our greeter uses a translator object to translate “hello” into the desired language. We want to test the greeter, so it is the SUT. The greeter depends on the translator to get the right message, so the translator is the DOC.

In order to verify that the SUT collaborates with the DOC in the way we expect, we replace the DOC with our mock. We then tell the mock what it should expect from the SUT. Once those expectations are set, we exercise the SUT (calling a method on it) which should in turn call methods on our mock (as the SUT thinks our mock is the real DOC). After we are finished exercising the SUT, we then verify that SUT used the mock in the way we expected.

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Integrating Unit Tests into current project

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:23:42 -0000

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These are the posts that I could find on unit testing that gave me some ideas.

Unit Tests for my pureMVC proxies with asyncronous data: http://forums.puremvc.org/index.php?topic=213.0
Testing practices for Pure MVC: http://forums.puremvc.org/index.php?topic=276.0
Question: Unit testing a command: http://forums.puremvc.org/index.php?topic=470.0
PureMVC FlexUnit Testing: http://forums.puremvc.org/index.php?topic=507.0
Testing a mediator: http://forums.puremvc.org/index.php?topic=419.0
unit testing, how to start: http://forums.puremvc.org/index.php?topic=462.0

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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:13:29 -0000

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Firefox extensions - Flash Switcher - sephiroth.it

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:04:53 -0000

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Install

This extension is available for Firefox 3.x and above.
I'm sorry but the installer it's a bit large ( 14 Mb ) because it's batteries included :)
That's because within the installer there are a couple of flash player versions for any of the supported OS ( linux, win and mac ) and because with flash 9 the weight of flash player increased really a lot! ( 11Mb on mac, for example )

Install now

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Unfuddle Tour: Plans

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:23:33 -0000

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Hosted source control - Fabrice's weblog

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:43 -0000

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CVSDude: Professional Subversion (SVN) Hosting and CVS Hosting

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:51:42 -0000

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Free and Commercial Subversion Hosting | Assembla

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:47:34 -0000

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VisualSVN Server | Subversion Server for Windows

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:45:05 -0000

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Running Flash Player 10 beta and Flash Player 9 Side By Side

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:14:47 -0000

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Three step guide to Windows:
- Install the extension
- Download and extract the .exe-file (eg. using 7-Zip)
- Copy “flashplayer.xpt” and “NPSWF32.dll” to a new folder named “10.0 beta” under this folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{some random string}\extensions\flash_switcher@sephiroth.it\plugins\win\

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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:37:03 -0000

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FlexWheel

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:18:34 -0000

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