RichFaces Build Re-Structure

June 10, 2013

As part of the RichFaces 5 effort, we have undergone a huge refactoring of the RichFaces project structure . Why? Over time we have identified requirements which the project build cannot meet because the build at the time was not ready to support them...


Issue Reproduction & Debugging with RichFaces Framework Tests

June 9, 2013

When an issue is discovered in an real application, it needs to be reproduced by the dev team in a sandbox environment. It really helps to have this reproducer in the form of an automated test that should work on a given sample code, but that is failing due to the underlying issue...


Introducing RichFaces Framework Tests

June 8, 2013

This post is a wrap-up for the Testing JSF and RichFaces with Arquillian series which I started with: As we announced earlier, we are undergoing several changes in our approach to how RichFaces is tested. We already have an extensive functional test suite authored by a top-notch RichFaces QE team, but this suite doesn’t allow us to react quickly on regressions introduced and so we usually find some of them during release testing...


Testing JSF and RichFaces with Arquillian - Part IV - Running in Continuous Integration

June 7, 2013

Once you started developing some integration tests, you should also think about how and where to run them. The last part of this series is dedicated to running tests in continuous integration...


Testing JSF and RichFaces with Arquillian - Part III - Mastering the Debugger

June 6, 2013

We have previously discussed which technologies to use and how to improve the test development turnaround when we want to test JSF with Arquillian. However developing tests using the right tools used the right way isn’t the last stop in a development cycle...


Testing JSF and RichFaces with Arquillian - Part II - Rapid Test Development

June 5, 2013

In a previous post we have discussed what technologies we use for testing JSF and RichFaces in particular. The tools we use focus on testing complex business applications with rich user interfaces...


Testing JSF and RichFaces with Arquillian - Part I - Used Technologies

January 29, 2013

As we announced earlier, we are undergoing several changes in our approach to how RichFaces is tested. We already have an extensive functional test suite authored by a top-notch RichFaces QE team, but this suite doesn’t allow us to react quickly on regressions introduced and so we usually find some of them during release testing...


New in RichFaces 4.3: Placeholder

January 28, 2013

In RichFaces 4.3 we build upon a great work from Bernard Labno who prototyped the <rich:placeholder /> component and shared it in the RichFaces Sandbox. This component gives you an ability similar to the HTML5’s placeholder – it pre-fills form inputs with text, which serves as a hint for users of what data is a particular input expects...


New in RichFaces 4.3: Focus

January 24, 2013

The <rich:focus /> component allows you to focus on a form input once the user requests the JSF page update (either via a full-page load or an AJAX partial update). The <rich:focus /> component will make sure that the focused component is the best choice for the user based on following criteria: validation results tabindex settings position in the page which component was selected prior to the request Contributed by Community The <rich:focus /> is another sample of a RichFaces Community contribution – the component was initially proposed and implemented by Bernard Labno and he contributed it to the RichFaces Sandbox...


Incremental build with RichFaces CDK

August 30, 2012

To whom of us using RichFaces CDK and being unsatisfied with a build time, our day just came! CDK got an incremental build feature, which caches information collected during a Library compilation and store it on a hard drive...