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Flex Test Coverage Kept Simple with Flexmojos


April 28, 2010 By Marvin Froeder

If you take testing seriously as I do, you most likely know test code coverage tools.  And in the Flex Universe the de facto standard is Flex Cover.  Now let’s be honest here, the tool does the job but it isn’t simple.  Using it requires a special compiler to run code on Flex projects, which is the main reason why test code coverage never got into Flexmojos.  The available tool was too complex to use, and so I never gave it any serious thought.

Since day one, Flexmojos has tried to follow the KISS philosophy (Keep It Simple Stupid Smartguy).  With that in mind, Flexmojos is proud to announce state of the art test code coverage support.

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Flexmojos Two Years Later


March 17, 2010 By Marvin Froeder

On March 18 2008 I checked in the first bits of code for Flexmojos.  Two years later, here we are: Flexmojos now provides first-class support for Flex and AIR development within Apache Maven. It allows for Maven to compile, optimize, and test Flex SWF, Flex SWC, Air SWF and Air SWC and Air files.

We are celebrating this anniversary with a dual release of Flexmojos 3.6 and Flexmojos 4.0-pre-alpha-1.

Flexmojos 3.6 Release

Flexmojos 3.6 most relevant changes:

  • Add a new source-view goal which goal produces a syntax highlighted version of the as, mxml and html if they are bundled in a SWF (thanks to Julien Nicoulaud for this contribution)
  • Some fixes to Flexbuilder metadata generation
  • Add support to Flex SDK 4.0.0.13555 and newer
  • Add support for building applications using Flashplayer 10.1 and Air 2.0
  • New configuration includeAsClasses for SWC compilation. Wildcard support for includeClasses
  • Generator mojo now supports package translation between Java and generated AS3
  • Support for granite generator 2.1 (thanks to Kyle Lebel)

For a full list of changes on 3.6, visit this page: https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/FLEXMOJOS/fixforversion/10629

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Maven Book 0.5: Flex Chapter & PDF Improvements


May 11, 2009 By Tim O'Brien

book-large.jpgWe just cut the 0.5 Edition of the book… Download the PDF or Read the Book Online.

  • More readable PDF content. – Typography makes a huge difference to the readability and usability of a text like Maven: The Definitive Guide, and this edition marks a series of editions that are going to focus on bringing the PDF format of this book up to the level of the printed, post-production version of the book. In this release:
    • Font was reduced to 11 point from 14 point. In addition to saving a few trees, this makes the book easier to read.
    • Page margins reduced to 0.3 inches. Again, if you look at an old version of the PDF, you’ll see that the margins were all over the place and the page wasn’t even centered.
    • More sophisticated table layout. As this books develops, I expect it to grow more “useful” tables than we have now. The FlexMojos chapter is full of long reference tables for each plugin goal, and we’re stating to get more sophisticated about table layout in the PDF.
  • First Version of FlexMojos Chapter Completed – Chapter 20 covers the FlexMojos plugin and how you can use Apache Maven to compile, document, test, and build Flex applications. FlexMojos just recently had a 3.2.0 release which added more support for unit testing, and the next FlexMojos release 3.3.0 is going to emphasize unit test coverage reports. The first draft of the Flex chapter covers everything you need to know about configuring your development environment for Flex to using the FlexMojos archetype to start a new Flex project in Maven.

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FlexMojos Chapter Focus of 0.5 Maven Book Release


May 7, 2009 By Tim O'Brien

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Just wanted to give people a heads up. The FlexMojos chapter is going to be the focus of the 0.5 release of the Maven book. I got a quick request yesterday for the most recent documentation for FlexMojos 3.1.0, and it motivated me to spend some time on our Flex chapter. If you are a reader, and you are looking for more documentation, you should know that you have two options to help drive our priorities for the Maven book. You can:

GetSatisfaction is a bit more community oriented and personal, while JIRA is more direct. If you are already participating in Sonatype’s open source development effort, you likely already have a JIRA account with us. Whatever you do, don’t hesistate to let us know what documentation you need. We’re listening.

Reading Our Work in Progress

The most recent build from the master branch of the book’s GitHub project is always available here. This version of the book is updated automatically whenever changes are pushed to master. The build process is currently running on a Hudson instance that is not visible to the public, but I have a JIRA task created to move this to the public grid.sonatype.org/ci instance of Hudson. The book build currently takes about 30 minutes (eek!) this is mainly due to the fact that we build all of the languages at once and there are some lingering issues with the lifecycle that cause certain tasks to run twice. Note: The PDF of the staged version of the book is not available, if you download the PDF, you’ll be downloading the released version. (If you really need the PDF of the staged version, you are welcome to build it yourself.

The 0.5 release of the book is in progress. I’d say we have about two or three days between now and the formal release. You can take a look at the remaining issues in our JIRA instance here. What remains for the 0.5 release is some documentation about Flex Unit Testing , Flex Code Coverage Tools, and a few other FlexMojos goodies. Since the 0.4 release earlier this week, we’ve updated the FlexMojos documentation to reflect the latest Flex archetypes and add some essential documentation about configuring your environment for unit testing: here is the latest staged version of Chapter 20

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