Behavior Driven Development for Adobe Flex
Welcome to a new way to build Flex applications. For years the Flex community has not embraced test driven development when creating user interfaces. And for good reason -- it's hard! Bread & Butter is a project that hopes to change the perception that testing is left up to the testers alone.
The Basics
A gentle introduction into behavior driven development and why it matters.
Where does this framework fit in with respect to all the other frameworks out there?
A walkthrough getting up and running with the environment and integrating it into a simple application.
Stop leaving your users in the dark and understand how Bread & Butter changes the way you write applications.
Digging in
Discover the core language definitions that you'll use every time you write a feature.
Mouse and Keyboard definitions provide basic interaction with your UI components.
These ease of use definitions provide a way to interact with Flex components in complicated ways by using simple syntax.
Bread & Butter comes with many prebuilt step definitions but at some point you'll need to build your own. Find out how.
Want More?
See the big picture of how Bread & Butter is put together. Understanding this allows you to extend the framework to fit your needs.
This is where the magic begins. Feature files are written in the Gherkin language and are parsed out here.
Features and feature groups are discovered through a structure of class definitions and meta tags. The processor traverses this structure to determine what to evaluate.
Once a set of instructions are determined, the evaluator runs them and returns the result of the execution.
Every environment is different. Flex 3, Flex 4, Spark, Halo, etc. To make sure we can run anywhere, we separate out environment dependencies into separate runners.