Luis Majano talks about "Extreme testing and slaying the dragons of ORM" in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Luis is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about the theory of Behavior Driven Development, Slaying the ORM Dragons with CBORM and The Ortus Keynote.

"And usually with test driven developers, developers really give up. It's really not fun. That's the truth. And it's tedious. And sometimes when you have big object-oriented applications it can really be daunting to create all the mocks, and sometimes you're just testing an ‘if statement' at that point. So it can be really dumb at that point." - Luis Majano

Show notes

Why Behavior Driven Development

How is it different from Test Driven Development

How TestBox makes both easy

Semantics BDD deep dive

Why you shouldn't miss the Ortus Keynote

Box roadmaps

Modern CFML development

Addressing the issues companies adopting ColdFusion: Language shaming, modern tools

Why it is sometimes hard to hire good CF developers

The driving force behind all things Ortus

How Luis came to the brink of moving to Goovy and why he came to ColdFusion

Behavior-Driven Integration Development Exposed

How Behavior-Driven Integration Development is different from Behavior Driven Development

Why you should be doing it

How to implement it fast

Slaying the ORM Dragons with CBORM

Why use an ORM

Why it is sometimes seen as a dangerous dragon

How to tame the ORM dragon

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?

Mentioned in this episode

All BDD code will be available at this repository: https://github.com/elpete/integrated-workshop

Code Coverage with Testbox + FusionReactor

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Bio

Luis Majano

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer born in El Salvador and is the president of Ortus Solutions (www.ortussolutions.com), a consulting firm specializing in web development, architecture and professional open source support and services. His background includes over 16 years of software development experience, architecture, and system design.  He is the creator of the ColdBox Platform (www.coldbox.org), CommandBox CLI (www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox), ContentBox Modular CMS (www.ortussolutions.com/products/contentbox) and is an Adobe Community Professional.

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Interview transcript

Michaela Light:               Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Luis Majano and he's the CEO of Ortus and all things Box. He created ColdBox and CommandlineBox and TestBox. I don't know. All kinds of things. If it has 'Box' in the name he probably had something to do with it. And we're going to be talking about Behavior Driven Development. Why we should be doing it. Why it's different from Test Driven Development. How TestBox makes both easy. And we're going to look into some of the semantics of that.

                                            And then Ortus is also doing a Keynote of this conference and why you shouldn't miss that. Going to look at some of the roadmap stuff. What modern ColdFusion development is. Addressing the issues that companies adopting ColdFusion have with language shaming, modern tools, and sometimes it being to hire good ColdFusion developers. And the driving force behind all things Ortus.

                                            And I managed to get Luis to tell us a little story about how he came to the brink of moving to Groovy and why he came back to ColdFusion. This was a few years back.

                                            We'll also be looking at Behavior Driven Integration Development, because he's giving a workshop on that, and how it's different from Behavior Driven Development, which got my head scratching for a bit but we're going to make it all clear in this...