Happy Flex Testing

While you growing your Flex application to become a giant serious system, you really want to keep up with testing. Good news, there are options. Got this from and between Derek Wischusen at FlexonRails (my favorate topic) and Aslak Hellesoy, a top RoR guy. FunFX is a free, open source Flex’s automation framework, developed by Peter Motzfeldt, that makes it possible to take advantage of Flex’s automation framework using test scripts written in Ruby. Sweet, that’ll help the Flex/RoR breeding process… FunFX is packaged as a Ruby gem. I was unable to install it via the normal gem install route, so for now it looks like you’ll have to download it from here and do a local install. AS Derek put it, So far FunFX seems like the only functional testing for Flex tool that fits the bill of “affordable, scriptable and easy to use”

Flex testing and automation tools and strategies:
Fluffy is an investigation into Flex testing and automation. Nate mentioned that tools and techniques for testing Flex are rudimentary, if used at all. Since he’s a Flex developer, it’s a pain he feels acutely. We agreed to work together to try to improve this.

A quick search on Google turns up FlexUnit and AsUnit. There is also the Automated Testing API on the other end.

How do you do functional testing with Flex? That’s the type of question we want to find answers to.

What kind of tools are needed? Do we want a recorder or UI scripting? Something like selenium? A test player? Performance tools? Randomized or parameterized data? Mocks or stubbing?