Testing J2EE components has always been a difficult task, which is probably why I see so many web projects that have few tests written for the web layer or sometimes none at all. Late last year Spring announced the release of Spring 2.5 , with some nice additions to the suite of mock testing objects for unit testing web components. That’s right unit testing web components, not in container testing. So like any good agile programmer let’s start with the test first.
Earlier today I had posed a question to a mailing list in the .NET community asking about Continuous Integration with Flex in the .NET world. After a couple of answers from people who obviously did not understand the question, because they just told me to google CruiseControl.NET, someone with some knowledge of TDD and Agile practices stepped up and pointed out the obvious point I was trying to make. There currently is no real good way to automate your FlexUnit tests in such a way that a CI server like CC.NET or HudsonCI would know whether or not all of the tests for your Actionscript classes passed or failed.