Siesta: Speeding up tests launched inside your IDE
At Bryntum we strongly believe in running our tests frequently. Doing so allows us to rapidly develop and debug tests without involving a real browser. As mentioned in previous posts, we use the...
View ArticleUsing Sencha Cmd and Ext Scheduler.
Recently Sencha released the third version of their build tools, now named ‘Sencha Cmd’. Compared to the previous editions, Sencha Cmd adds much more functionality (take notice, that Cmd works only...
View ArticleTouch Scheduler 1.0
Announcing Touch Scheduler 1.0 We are very happy to announce the 1.0 version of our new Touch Scheduler. The first release is based on Sencha Touch 2.1 and comes with several implementation samples...
View ArticleImproving Siesta performance
It was recently brought to our attention that Siesta performed poorly if you had a test producing several hundred assertions. We did a quick investigation and found that the Ext JS grid was doing a...
View ArticleRe-blog: Squash Variable Leaks with Siesta
This is a re-blog of a great recent blog post by Brian Moeskau at Extensible. JavaScript makes it incredibly easy to create global variables accidentally, which is inefficient and can also lead to very...
View ArticleManaging stores in a complex component
The Ext Gantt chart deals with a lot of observable data stores: Tasks, Dependencies, Assignments, Resources etc. A typical view component will observe its data stores and react to their changes. When...
View ArticleRoad to Ext Scheduler v2.2: Overrides
We’re currently busy finalizing a major refactoring of our Ext Scheduler component which will be released as v2.2. There are two major reasons for this refactoring. First of all we needed to refactor...
View ArticleRoad to Ext Scheduler 2.2: Upgrade guide
We just released the first 2.2 beta version in the CustomerZone. This release has quite a few changes due to some major refactorings mentioned in my previous post. To sum up, we adapted a lot of the...
View ArticleUnder the hood of the Socket.IO + Express example
You might have seen one of the sneak preview videos on YouTube about a collaborative demo app using our scheduler with Ext JS and Sencha Touch. With our recent release of the first 2.2 beta version of...
View ArticleTesting a Sencha Touch application
I recently joined Arthur Kay for an online webinar about writing tests for Sencha applications. As a follow up to the webinar, I thought we should really have a basic sample showing how to write...
View ArticleIntroducing UberGrid
Introduction We’re proud to present the new UberGrid component – a grid with super powers for Sencha Touch! UberGrid aims to support as many grid features as possible while also providing excellent...
View ArticleThe 2.2 release is here
Today we’re happy to announce the new 2.2 release of Ext Scheduler and Ext Gantt. Both products have been upgraded to support Ext JS 4.2 (v4.2 GA is required). A lot of effort went into this release,...
View ArticleUsing Ext Scheduler in Sencha Architect
We’ve been asked quite a lot how to use our components inside Sencha Architect. With the recent release of Sencha Architect 2.2, this is now very easy to solve. Please note that third party components...
View Articledescribe(“Siesta 1.2.0 with BDD support”)
BDD, or Behavior Driven Development has been all the hype for a while now when it comes to JavaScript development. One of the most known JavaScript BDD test tools is Jasmine, and it does a great job of...
View ArticleMocking Ajax calls with Siesta
In the past couple of months we’ve received a few requests for mocking capabilities when it comes to Ajax requests with Siesta. We are actually quite interested in this feature ourself so we we’re very...
View ArticleCustomer Showcase: Copenhagen Airport
An airport is a very busy place and the Copenhagen Airport (“CPH”) is no exception. With 250,000 flights and over 20 million passengers flying in and out of it every year, it’s easy to see that it...
View ArticleNew Release: Siesta 1.2.0
Today we are very glad to announce the Siesta 1.2.0 “GA” release. This is a quite major release, with many improvements in terms of features and stability, and we advise all Siesta users to upgrade to...
View ArticleCode coverage with Siesta 2.0
Siesta 2.0 was released last week during SenchaCon 2013 in Florida. The main features of this release are the brand new UI (based on Ext JS 4.2) and the ability to generate code coverage reports. Code...
View ArticleA look at the upcoming Siesta recorder
Lately we’ve been hard at work at getting the new Siesta event recorder ready for release. So far it’s looking pretty darn good and in this blog post I want to share some details of how it works and...
View ArticleGetting started with the Siesta event recorder
As we’re getting closer to releasing the event recorder feature, we have prepared the following Getting Started guide to show you how to use the it. What is the event recorder? The event recorder will...
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