The Boston Flex User Group's second event will be held on the evening of Tues, May 13, 2008 at Adobe Systems' Newton office at 7 pm. Pizza and refreshments will be provided courtesy of Universal Mind starting around 6:30 pm: come early and hang out!

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Adobe's David Coletta on Buzzword's Automated Testing Framework

Here's David's description of his talk:

Buzzword is a full-fledged word processor built in Flex, with a complete document and layout model that allows WYSIWYG document editing as you type. One of the first things we built in Buzzword was an automated testing framework that runs inside the application. Our testing framework can execute hundreds of tests that verify the correctness of the document and the layout model as each word processing command is executed. Over the course of developing Buzzword, we have invested much time and energy maintaining and enhancing this automated testing framework. In its current incarnation, it is possible to record, edit, train, and execute tests by operating Buzzword.

In this talk I will review the document and layout models and explain how they fit into the architecture of the product, demonstrate the test recording and training functions, and go under the hood to show how it was built and how it works.