February 9, 2011 at Microsoft

  1. Automated Browser Testing by Chris Culver
  2. It's 2012: stop treating your JavaScript like a red-headed stepchild. by Jason Pettys

Have you ever tried web UI automation with a unit testing framework; it's really brittle. Subtle changes to the web design cause massive amounts of rewriting tests. Chris has been working with some browser automation frameworks that make UI testing in the browser much nicer.

Do you still think JavaScript is just for making fancy menus or rollovers? Jason will show you how JavaScript is much more powerful than we all thought. Jason will cover:

  • CoffeeScript: JavaScript is a powerful language, but has a few warts. Enter CoffeeScript!
  • KnockoutJs: Structure your JavaScript nicely with the MVVM pattern.
  • QUnit: It’s time to bring JavaScript into the fold of unit testing.

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