Altoros and Apatar Assists in Sun Microsystems Panel on Java UI Automated Testing

Minsk, Belarus, July 01, 2009 --(PR.com)-- On June 9, the round table on Java UI Automated Testing was held by Sun Microsystems during the WebConf-09 conference with the assistance of Altoros Systems, a global software delivery acceleration specialist. Alexandre Iline (Sun Microsystems, Russia), together with select experts from the Belarus Java User Group, discussed the main challenges that occur during the automation of Java application interface testing. Throughout the meeting, Alexandre actively shared the experience he has gained working on such popular Java projects as NetBeans, JavaFX Designer, and Java Store.

During the two-hour session, participants exchanged their opinions on why to automate testing, what tools to use, what the specifics of UI testing are, and how to create a testing suite. Alexandre also discussed the metrics that may be used to evaluate the quality of an application’s performance and the efficiency of testing. After that, he delivered an overview of Jemmy, the library that can perform testing right from the Java code and which provides the API straight-forward access to the Java IU. After the meeting, JUG experts and the most active participants were given souvenirs from Sun Microsystems.

“Despite it being our first round table, the meeting proved to be useful for both our User Group members and our special guest from St. Petersburg,” said Alexey Khizhnyak, the press coordinator of the event and Belarus Java User Group. “As Alexandre Iline mentioned, he had a chance to learn about complex situations he’d never faced before, so he promised to employ the panel’s format for his future presentations. I believe we’ll be able to hold our next Java developer meetings in the same interactive manner as this one, too.”

Photos from the panel: http://www.belarusjug.org/ru/kruglyiy-stol-s-sun-fotootchet.html

Audio (63.7 Mb): http://belarusjug.org/files/sun_automated_testing.wav

Slides (PDF, 848 Kb): http://belarusjug.org/files/ui_test_auto.pdf

Organizers:

Altoros Systems, Inc. is a global software delivery acceleration specialist that provides focused outsourced software product engineering, independent Quality Assurance, and testing services to software organizations and information-driven enterprises. Areas of expertise include Microsoft .NET, Java, Adobe Flex, Ruby on Rails, and Mobile technologies. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Western Massachusetts, Altoros has a representative office in Tampa, Florida, and a software development center in Eastern Europe (Minsk, Belarus). For more: www.altoros.com.

Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. With powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities, Apatar enables its users to easily link information between databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3). For more on Apatar, please visit www.apatar.com and www.apatarforge.org.

The steering committee of WebConf-09, an international scientific and practical conference on Web programming and Internet technologies, including the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Belarus State University. For more information, please visit www.webconf.bsu.by.

The Belarus Java User Group was launched in late 2007 to bring together Java developers and leading IT companies to help the members meet on a regular basis, to share ideas, experience, and thoughts on how to make the most of Java technologies in their daily work. The Belarus Java User Group includes more than 300 Java developers. To learn more, please visit www.belarusjug.org.

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