Best Served Cold

There has been a lot more attention paid to testing CFCs this year at CFUnited, and cfcUnit is right there at the front when discussing unit testing one's CFML. Perhaps the biggest proponent of unit testing has been John Paul Ashenfelter and his talks on Agile Development and Testing ColdFusion. Additionally, I have seen demos of unit testing by Chris Scott when showing off different functionality of the ColdSpring framework.

A side effect of this attention has been that there will soon be a new Ant task written by John Paul that will allow cfcUnit to be run as a part of an automated build, but it could also be run from within Eclipse just as other unit testing frameworks do now.

Well, with CFUnited over and done with, there are quite a few things to reflect on. I don't think I am ready to say anything yet, but I think tomorrow I will be able to share my thoughts. Stay tuned...

Jared Rypka-Hauer wants to go to CFUnited this year, and you can help him get there. If you go to his blog, there is a button on the right side that you can click to help pay his way.

Personally, I think it would be great to see him there, so go pay the man!