The December SFSE meetup was a series of lightning talks which they recorded. It’s worth the 35 minutes or so to watch them, but if you are lazy, here are the highlights. But you should at the very least watch Dante’s.

  1. Mary-Ann May-Pumphrey
    • Se for non-testing purposes — which is something I have seen most from the Drupal community
  2. Isaac James
    • Talks about how they tried to automate Facebook connect
    • The talk is kinda rambly, but he has written a post on it which fills in the holes
  3. Patrick Callahan
    • When the devs say ‘it would be great if you can automate this’ is pure win
  4. Adam Christian
    • can’t make a webpage without using js – my how things have progressed in 15 years.
    • it makes baby pandas sad is the quote of the week and I intend to steal it at every opportunity
  5. Eric Allen
    • Managed to create a new rails app, run it through Sauce OnDemand and deploy it to Heroku in under 5 minutes
    • Excellent use of the cheat sheet
    • Nit – selenium tests aren’t really ‘unit’ tests. What you call things matters. A lot.
  6. Dante Briones
    • Best lightning talk of the night
    • All these integrations can fail — more like will fail when dealing with external integrations
    • the opposite of awesome
    • hints:
      • Completely separate app stack for CI
      • Make external dependencies configurable
      • Provide stub versions of web services
      • Render marketing beacons conditionally
    • Run the entire stack in the same VM
    • Dev [test] can control the environment
  7. Jason Huggins
    • Scripting HTML5 with Sikuli
    • epic is the better word for awesome
    • Image based locators…. ugh. Se-IDE will need this first. Sounds like a Google Summer of Code project to me…