Thomas Burleson

Presentation: Continuous Testing with FlexUnit and Cairngorm
This presentation will introduce the concepts of continuous testing and unit testing in the development process.
The audience is encouraged to use similar techniques to significantly improve their application's quality, stability and time-to-market.

• Compare the classic ad-hoc approach(es) of testing your flex code to the industry-proven methods of Unit testing using FlexUnit.
• Learn how to use ANT to automate the testing of all your flex code.
• Learn about the manual drudgery of maintaining your test code...
• Learn how this approach (& tools) can also be used also with your Flex code.
  
• Learn how FlexUnit testing can be successfully applied to your Cairngorm codebase

Bio
Thomas Burleson is a Universal Mind Principal Architect with extensive experience designingobject-oriented commerce and business RIA internet solutions. With a 21-year career in software development, Mr. Burleson has served in leadership roles for companies across the US with responsibilitiesincluding requirements analysis, technical architectures, mentoring, project management,and product delivery.

Mr. Burleson provides technical leadership that allows Universal Mind to offer both outsource and onsite/offsite consulting services. That leadership includes skills and experience to train, mentor,and lead software development efforts for Web2 & RIA solutions using Flex, Flash, Coldfusion, and Java technologies.

Mr. Burleson specializes in joint client-consultant team development projects; providing on-project mentoring to the client's staff/developers, architecture leadership, and technical project management. Flex product solutions include RIA dashboards, reporting, analytics, and visualization business solutions.