Tag Archives | groovy

Functional Testing: lessons learned

By on March 28, 2012 in General

Finally I got around using functional testing (some people call it ‘System Testing’) extensively in a project. This post lists what I’ve learned about functional testing and more specifically, Geb, which allows you to automate functional tests.

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Consuming and developing and testing web services with Groovy and Grails

By on March 19, 2012 in General

For a recent project, I used Groovy and Grails to both consume and provide and test webservices. In this post I would like to share a few of the highlights, and the rationale behind some of the choices I made.

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Weekend fun with the Dutch Railways API

By on April 4, 2011 in General

Recently, Dutch Rail (called NS in Holland) made an API available. I thought I would put it to use.

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My experiences with Grails

By on March 16, 2011 in General

For a private project, I have been using Grails for a couple of months now, and altogether it was a very pleasant experience. In this post I would like to highlight some aspects of it.

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