Knowledge sharing session Includes information about - ASP.NET WebApi - Kendo UI - Automated UI Testing

1. DDD!Sydney 2012
Knowledge Sharing

2. Technologies
• ASP.NET WebApi
• Automated UI Testing
• Kendo UI

3. ASP.NET WebApi
• What is it?
– a shiny new framework
– build HTTP services easily
– reach a broad range of clients
• browsers and mobile devices
– ideal for RESTful applications on .NET
– http://www.asp.net/web-api
• Used to be known as WCF WebApi
• Included in ASP.NET MVC 4

4. ASP.NET WebApi
WSE 2
ASMX WCF
&3
MVC and
WCF
Custom
WebApi
Views

5. ASP.NET WebApi
• What for?
– If you want to build APIs using MVC style of
programming (instead of WCF style)
• Features
– Content Negotiation (JSON or XML)
– Self Hosting
– Async Support
– OData Support

6. ASP.NET WebApi
• Demo

7. Automated UI Testing
• UI Testing
– End-to-end tests
– Browser recorders
– Selenium, WATIN, etc.

8. Automated UI Testing

9. Automated UI Testing
• Why they fail
– Unmaintainable
– Lots of things going on
– Brittle
– Procedural
– Duplicated logic
– Magic strings

10. Automated UI Testing
• Test code is code!
– Apply S.R.P.
– Apply D.R.Y.
– Care about tests as much as your code

11. Automated UI Testing
• Solution: Object-oriented Tests
– Page Objects
– Page Components
– Strong Typing
– Framework: Seleno
• http://teststack.github.com/TestStack.Seleno/

12. Automated UI Testing

13. Automated UI Testing
• Use BDDfy to create tests into “living
documentation”
– http://teststack.github.com/TestStack.BDDfy/

14. Automated UI Testing

15. Automated UI Testing
• Don’t use Thread.Sleep
• Choose right selectors
• Only one test per action
• Design by interface
• Apply YAGNI
• Run and maintain your tests
– Run frequently, fix immediately!
• DO IT RIGHT or DO NOT DO IT

16. Kendo UI
• New JS framework from Telerik
• For web/mobile apps
• Everything you need for HTML5/CSS3 and JS
sites and applications
• http://www.kendoui.com

17. Kendo UI
Web DataViz Mobile
• Telerik Web • Visualizations, • Native look-
Controls widgets, and-feel for
• Touch- charts iOS, Android,
enabled • Touch aware, Blackberry
• Supports IE7 hardware • Exposes
up accelerated Native API
interfaces

18. Kendo UI
• DataSource
• MVVM Framework
• Theme Builder

19. Kendo UI
• Demo

20. The End
• Questions?