Rob Fletcher has been developing web apps for 15 years. He’s contributed to various open-source projects including Grails for which he worked on the core as well as developing a range of plugins.
Talks I've Given
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Grails for Hipsters
Featuring Robert Fletcher
In this talk I'll demonstrate how to integrate a curated selection of the latest & greatest technologies to develop a cutting edge Grails application that will be the envy of scenester developers everywhere. With vert.x for asynchronous server side code, websockets for pushing content to...
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Groovier testing with Spock
Featuring Robert Fletcher
Spock is a powerful and expressive testing language built on top of Groovy. This talk will be a live-coding demonstration where I will take a small Java application with a set of JUnit tests and refactor the tests into Spock specifications. I'll show the features of Spock; its concise syntax,...
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Testing HTTP dependencies with Betamax
Featuring Robert Fletcher
Testing applications that communicate with external services via HTTP can be tricky and error prone. Betamax is a Groovy testing tool that can record and play back HTTP interactions so that tests are fast, reliable and repeatable. I'll demonstrate how to use Betamax to decouple your...
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Betamax
Featuring Robert Fletcher
In this talk for the Groovy Grails User Group, Rob Fletcher shows how to use Betamax to make tests for your HTTP dependent code simple, robust & repeatable.
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Spock testing framework
Featuring Robert Fletcher
Rob will be speaking about the awesome Spock testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications.
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Testing Grails Applications with Selenium RC
Featuring Robert Fletcher
Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.
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