Comments on: The bar has been raised http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised/comment-page-1#comment-60160 Steve Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:42:32 +0000 http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised#comment-60160 I remember long ago reading (I think) about a test harness for the AJAX toolkit. I had no idea what that meant at the time...and haven't heard anything since. I think in the future we can off-load a lot of the logic to Apex, and have s-controls that call those blocks as web services. I hope to have my first example of that built this week--an S-Control that clones an Opportunity along with the contact roles. Right now that's an s-control with no UI. Should be easy to rewrite as an s-control where all it does is call an Apex method, passing in the id of the Opp to be cloned. Then you can test the Apex and effectively test the s-control. For s-controls where you can't off load everything, I suppose we'll keep doing things the way we are now. But I'm open to suggestions, for sure. I remember long ago reading (I think) about a test harness for the AJAX toolkit. I had no idea what that meant at the time…and haven’t heard anything since.

I think in the future we can off-load a lot of the logic to Apex, and have s-controls that call those blocks as web services. I hope to have my first example of that built this week–an S-Control that clones an Opportunity along with the contact roles. Right now that’s an s-control with no UI. Should be easy to rewrite as an s-control where all it does is call an Apex method, passing in the id of the Opp to be cloned.

Then you can test the Apex and effectively test the s-control. For s-controls where you can’t off load everything, I suppose we’ll keep doing things the way we are now. But I’m open to suggestions, for sure.

]]> By: Evan Callahan http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised/comment-page-1#comment-60156 Evan Callahan Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:48:56 +0000 http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised#comment-60156 Raising the bar, indeed. You are scaring me. Even with Apex, we'll still have s-controls. Can we somehow automate testing them too? Raising the bar, indeed. You are scaring me.

Even with Apex, we’ll still have s-controls. Can we somehow automate testing them too?

]]> By: Steve http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised/comment-page-1#comment-60073 Steve Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:33:04 +0000 http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised#comment-60073 I will do a screen case when we get this hammered out in the next couple days. The biggest benefit right now to building this in a test-driven way is that I can make changes and run the test to see if it works. I don't have to go to www.salesforce.com and use the UI to see the behavior. Incredibly more efficient. Example: I didn't handle the case where if one spouse changes their last name that the HH recognition name should change. So, I created a test for that. Just took a Contact, changed the last name, and then checked to see if the HH recognition name had changed. The test failed, as expected. Then I wrote the code to handle that case. Then I clicked the test button again and the test passed, meaning my code worked. Awesome. I need to read up on test-driven development, and object-oriented programming in general now that I'm using this new powerful language. Every day is a learning day... I will do a screen case when we get this hammered out in the next couple days. The biggest benefit right now to building this in a test-driven way is that I can make changes and run the test to see if it works. I don’t have to go to http://www.salesforce.com and use the UI to see the behavior. Incredibly more efficient.

Example: I didn’t handle the case where if one spouse changes their last name that the HH recognition name should change. So, I created a test for that. Just took a Contact, changed the last name, and then checked to see if the HH recognition name had changed. The test failed, as expected. Then I wrote the code to handle that case. Then I clicked the test button again and the test passed, meaning my code worked. Awesome.

I need to read up on test-driven development, and object-oriented programming in general now that I’m using this new powerful language. Every day is a learning day…

]]> By: Sonny http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised/comment-page-1#comment-60065 Sonny Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:03:13 +0000 http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised#comment-60065 Steve...do you have a screencast of the Household apex functionality yet? Really looking forward to seeing Apex in the nonprofit edition and your brilliance adopted by the lot of us. RE: Jon...I don't think most in the nptech community know what the hell you guys are talking about...I just barely do. Steve…do you have a screencast of the Household apex functionality yet? Really looking forward to seeing Apex in the nonprofit edition and your brilliance adopted by the lot of us.

RE: Jon…I don’t think most in the nptech community know what the hell you guys are talking about…I just barely do.

]]> By: Jon Stahl http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised/comment-page-1#comment-59916 Jon Stahl Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:23:46 +0000 http://gokubi.com/archives/the-bar-has-been-raised#comment-59916 W00t! Test-driven development rocks. It's how you PROVE that your new code doesn't break your old code. That's huge. It's a shame that more folks in the nonprofit tech community don't seem to value this approach. W00t! Test-driven development rocks. It’s how you PROVE that your new code doesn’t break your old code. That’s huge. It’s a shame that more folks in the nonprofit tech community don’t seem to value this approach.

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