Omaha Java Users Group

Tuesday May 15 - Automating Your Mobile Web App Testing

scott — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:37:59 +0000

Description:

Interested in automating your mobile webapp testing using some cool technologies? Leveraging Geb and Spock, both groovy technologies, developers and even QA team members can build out a functional test suite for their mobile webapps with relative ease - using not only a desktop browser, but with a mobile device emulator and on actual devices as well. In this talk, I’ll provide an overview of the technologies you’ll be leveraging, then demonstrate putting them to work. We’ll walk and talk through best practice examples for using these technologies, and share tips/tricks for building out an automated functional testing suite. Finally, we’ll talk about cloud solutions that you and/or your company could employ to further your automation efforts, and answer any questions you might have, so that you can leave the meeting armed to begin your own adventures in the automated mobile web testing space.

Bio:

Zach Lendon is a Senior Consultant at Object Partners, based in Minnesota. Zach has 2 years of experience working with Grails and 12+ years of experience building highly-scalable web applications.

In the mobile space, Zach has worked with multiple clients to help them build both native and web-based mobile applications. He has brought many of the best practices he learned in the web space into his mobile work. As a key foundational attribute he desires to understand what various technologies are best at and to meld those strong-suits with client needs to deliver engaging applications. He is an active member of several local user groups, has spoken at national conferences including Java in Action, and has written for magazines including Software Developer’s Journal.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Agenda:
5:30 Networking
6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems
6:30 Presentation

tuesday april 17th - Power-Debugging Java Apps with the Groovy Console or the Clojure REPL

david — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:34:54 +0000

When testing or debugging an application where the objects you’re trying to inspect are large collections of complicated objects, drilling down through the object tree in the Eclipse Debugger usually isn’t very helpful. Wouldn’t it be great to interactively work with live objects just like Smalltalk or Lisp programmers do? In this talk, you’ll see how you can use the Groovy Console or the Clojure REPL to inspect *and* manipulate live Java objects in your Java projects.

As always Gallup will be hosting and Tek Systems will be providing dinner for us all.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Agenda:
5:30 Networking
6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems
6:30 Presentation

Tuesday March 20th - Joist

david — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:08:40 +0000

This month Stephen Haberman will be talking to us about Joist.

Joist is an ORM based on code generation. The goal is to provide Rails-like “empty domain objects” in an ORM that is simple, pleasant to use, and, if needed, scales nicely to really large schemas.
As always Gallup will be hosting and Tek Systems will be providing dinner for us all.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Agenda:

5:30 Networking

6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems

6:30 Presentation

Tuesday February 21st - Restlet

david — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:43:07 +0000

This month Paul Heaberlin will be talking with us about Restlet.

Restlet is a Java framework for building RESTful web applications. Restlet has editions for building RESTful servers and clients using Java SE, Java EE, GWT, Google App Engine, and Android. It looks like a very interesting technology.

As always Gallup will be hosting and Tek Systems will be providing dinner for us all.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Agenda:

5:30 Networking

6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems

6:30 Presentation

Tuesday January 17th - Byteman

david — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:55:30 +0000

This month Jerome Watts from Werner will be presenting Byteman ( http://www.jboss.org/byteman ) a Java agent you can add to you system that allows you to change code at startup or runtime, even in your production environments. It’s a neat technology that has some interesting use cases such as adding logging after deployment, or doing fault testing by simulating networking or hardware related errors.

As always Gallup will be hosting and Tek Systems will be providing dinner for us all.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Agenda:
5:30 Networking
6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems
6:30 Presentation

November 15th - Play Framework

david — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:34:06 +0000

This month Madhu Koppula of Bass and Associates will be presenting to us on the Play Framework.

Play ( http://www.playframework.org/ ) is a java web development framework that focuses on developer productivity and focuses on RESTful architectures.

Bass and Associates will be providing some door prizes for this months event as well.

As always Gallup will be hosting and Tek Systems will be providing dinner for us all.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Agenda:

5:30 Networking

6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems

6:30 Presentation

October 18th - Mobile Application Security

david — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:15:03 +0000

This month, we are lucky to have John Rogers, a Senior Application Security Engineer at Lincoln Financial Group. John will be talking about to us about mobile application security, examining the new and existing threats to applications when they are made available to a firm’s mobile users and customers; then exploring the best practices for building secure mobile applications.

As always Gallup will be hosting and Tek Systems will be providing dinner for us all.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive
Agenda:
5:30 Networking
6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems
6:30 Presentation

September 20, 2011 - Scala

david — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:08:07 +0000

This month we have Stephen Haberman from Bizo will be presenting on Scala. Scala is a statically typed JVM language that brings together OO and functional programming. Stephen has been using Scala for two years now and will be sharing his experience.

As always Gallup will be hosting and Tek Systems will be providing dinner for us all.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive
Agenda:
5:30 Networking
6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems
6:30 Presentation

Tuesday August 16th - Java 7

david — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:28:44 +0000

This month Paul Heaberlin, Dan Hrivnak, and Ramzi Yassine will be presenting on Java 7. It’s been over 4 years since a major release to the java language and this release brings some very useful features, such as automatic closing of resources and the ability to catch multiple exceptions with one catch block.

We also have free Java 7 t-shirts for the first 50 people.

As usual we will be meeting at Gallup and Tek Systems will be providing food.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Agenda:
5:30 Networking
6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems
6:30 Presentation

Tuesday July 19th - Reflection

david — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:43:26 +0000

This month at the OJUG Brian Lee will be presenting on Reflection. Reflection is an incredibly powerful tool in Java that we can use to write more elegant and concise code.

As always Gallup will be hosting and Tek Systems will be providing dinner for us all.

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus, 1001 Gallup Drive

Agenda:

5:30 Networking

6:00 Food - Courtesy of TekSystems

6:30 Presentation