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Here is something on the bright side…

Peter Motzfeldt, a BEKK colleague, has released FunFX, a functional testing framework similar to Watir and Selenium, but with Adobe Flex applications as the target platform.

Flex is a very interesting platform (so interesting I’ll have a tutorial about Flex and Rails at RailsConf Europe with Børre Wessel from Adobe). If you’re there we’ll try to give you a sneak peak of FunFX too.

Any application that is based on a UI technology that lacks an affordable, scriptable and easy to use functional testing tool represents a huge risk in terms of maintenance and evolution. So far FunFX seems like the only functional testing for Flex tool that fits the bill of “affordable, scriptable and easy to use”, so I encourage all you Flex/Ruby folks out there to try it out and help make it better.

FunFX is written in Ruby. It was Peter’s first ever experience with Ruby, so there is room for improvement, but the most important problem is solved, namely the Ruby->Flex integration part.