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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, all the major internet or enterprise applications are developed or migrated to Rich Internet Application to support all the features that are provided in the desktop applications. This helps organizations keep the end users happy and also improves application deployment and maintenance. qooxdoo is a stable, open source RIA framework. If you are waiting and watching for the right time to migrate your application to qooxdoo, this is the right time!This book explains in detail about the rich user interface development in qooxdoo. It explains various concepts of qooxdoo framework in an easy to grasp and organized way, making it simple even for a novice in qooxdoo and also increases the competency level of the developer who is already working in qooxdoo.This book helps developers understand the qooxdoo framework, setup the environment, and start the development of RIA using qooxdoo. You will learn the core programming techniques in qooxdoo, user interface development in qooxdoo, testing & debugging qooxdoo applications, internationalization of qooxdoo applications to multiple languages, customizing the look and feel of qooxdoo applications using Themes, Performance management, etc.In the course of the book, we develop a complete application which will help the developer to understand the concepts better and to put things together to see the step-by-step progress to complete an application. By the end, this book will get the developer accustomed to the widgets and API available in the qooxdoo framework, and will enable him to design, develop, debug, and test the RIA in qooxdoo.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
qooxdoo
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References

Unit testing


The qooxdoo framework provides a set of classes and internal tools for unit testing the qooxdoo classes. Unit testing is nothing but cross-checking the implementation of the source code in terms of small units, to see whether each unit is satisfying and performing its basic intention or requirement. A unit is the smallest testable part of an application and, in object-oriented programming, the smallest unit is considered as a method.

It is the developer's responsibility to make sure that any new changes do not affect the working code. Creating some unit tests and continuously executing them identifies software breakage at an early stage. The qooxdoo framework provides a good environment to create unit test cases easily. The testrunner tool is also provided to run the test cases. The qooxdoo framework provides a separate package named qx.dev.unit, with a set of classes, where these classes provide an interface to qooxdoo's unit test framework.

The class hierarchy for unit testing...