Geb - Automate your Testing, Scraping and More
Whether you need to automate web based processes, write a screen scraper or implement functional testing for web applications in any language, geb is a powerful new framework that can help you to do it quicker, better and more elegantly.
Learn the problems geb can solve, why you'd pick it over the many other options, and how to get started developing your geb based tests and solutions ASAP.
Functional testing allows you to confirm that your web applications are working the way that you expect. Instead of clicking through the site by hand, you can script the process and hook it into your CI server of choice. Functional testing tools can also be used for automating web based processes or screen scraping.
In this session, we'll look at the capabilities of Geb (pronounced “Jeb”) - the new kid on the block for functional testing on the JVM. Providing a very Groovy wrapper around htmlUnit, it's an excellent functional testing solution and a tool that any developer should consider adding to their toolkit.
About Peter Bell
Peter is an evangelist and hacker for hackNY - a not-for-profit that aims to federate the next generation of hackers for the New York innovation community.
Peter is a regular presenter at national and international conferences on ruby, nodejs, NoSQL (especially MongoDB and neo4j), cloud computing, software craftsmanship, java, groovy, javascript, and requirements and estimating. He is on the program committee for Code Generation in Cambridge, England and the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at SPLASH (was ooPSLA) and reviews and shepherds proposals for the BCS SPA conference.
He has presented at a range of conferences including DLD conference, ooPSLA, RubyNation, SpringOne2GX, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference, DevNexus, cf.Objective(), CF United, Scotch on the Rocks, WebDU, WebManiacs, UberConf, the Rich Web Experience and the No Fluff Just Stuff Enterprise Java tour.
He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, IBM developerWorks, Information Week, Methods & Tools, Mashed Code, NFJS the Magazine and GroovyMag. He's currently writing a book on managing software development for Pearson.
He is an organizer of the CTO School http://www.ctoschool.org - an organization in NYC devoted to creating the next generation of technical leaders. He also organizes the node.js meetup in New York and co-organizes the Domain Driven Design and Grails meetups.
He is a regular instructor at General Assembly in New York. His presentations cover managing software development, NoSQL, mobile development, Javascript development, Twitter Bootstrap and Javascript frameworks.
He tweets regularly as @peterbell.
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