In a series of posts, I’ve talked about my Tapestry micro-framework and I tried to provide some of the rationale for its design choices. Providing that rationale meant providing a context for you to see it in action. This post will cap off the previous posts by digging into the code of Tapestry a bit and showing you how it works. I hope this is more relevant given that you’ve now seen it in action. Continue reading The Architecture of a Micro-Framework →

In the previous post I talked about communication patterns in terms of the micro-framework and tests. Here I’ll talk about the expressiveness of the tests themselves, showing how Tapestry supports the idea of a context. Continue reading Micro-Framework Context Patterns →

In my last post on micro-frameworks, I got into the organizing principles of my Tapestry solution, by which the framework provides or supports a mechanism for the encapslation of and delegation to logic. Here I’m going to continue on that theme but with a focus on showing how the framework calls into the tests, rather than the reverse, and why I think this is a good design approach. Continue reading Micro-Framework Communication Patterns →

This is a continuation of my exploration into providing insight into micro-framework creation for automation, using my own Tapestry tool by way of example. The first post set the context and the second post focused on exposing an API. Here we’ll dig into exposing the organizing principle. Continue reading Organizing Principles for Micro-Frameworks →

Here I’ll continue on with the introduction of my Tapestry micro-framework that I started in the first post. This time I’ll focus on a bit on how you want to create an API interface for your micro-framework. Continue reading The API of a Micro-Framework →

Here I want to talk a little about test automation framework construction. Or, rather, micro-framework construction. I will use my own tool, called Tapestry, for this purpose. Tapestry is written in Ruby but what I talk about is potentially transferrable to your language of choice. Continue reading Writing Automation Micro-Frameworks →