In this presentation for the NYC Titanium User's Group, Andrew McElroy, a Titanium Certified Expert and Certified Instructor, explains the advantages of using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for creating automated tests to improve the development of Titanium and Alloy applications. He also discussed his TiCucumber library which enables the seamless use of Cucumber with Alloy.

1. NYC Titanium User’s Group
December 3rd, 2013
TOPICS
Organizer topics
Feature: Behavior Driven Development for Titanium
Andrew McElroy
Open discussion
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2. Thanks to our Sponsors!
Appcelerator, Inc
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JetBrains
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O’Reilly
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Manning Publications
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3. Titanium News
Since October meetup
Titanium 3.2.0 SDK/Studio Beta is available (change notes)
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GA expected mid December
Alloy 1.3.0 (change notes)
Child elements for Widget and Require elements
XML element properties for ListView, ListSection and TextField
SQLite Sync Adapter: models may be fetched using the ID
attribute
• New pre:load Alloy compiler hook
• Animation built-in API to support flipping a view
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Titanium SDK
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Preliminary support for iOS 7.1 and Android 4.4 (KitKat)
Preliminary support for Tizen 2.2
ListView (phase 2)
✦ custom list/section headers and footers
✦ custom row selection
✦ dynamic item loading
✦ search support
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4. Titanium News
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Titanium SDK (continued)
Android
✦ animation improvements (better performance, closer to iOS)
✦ re-write of build process with many bug fixes and improvements
✦ xxhdpi support (480 dpi)
✦ windows are heavyweight (by default)
✦ supports creating broadcast intents
✦ Push: MQTT is deprecated, now using Google Cloud Messaging
• iOS
✦ build to device (!!)
✦ attributed strings
✦ dynamic animations (physics engine)
✦ iOS 7 animated transitions background services
✦ iOS 5 is deprecated
✦ Map is now a separate module with added capabilities (e.g. 3D)
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Titanium Studio 3.2
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Improved platform installation and configuration wizard
Overhaul of UI and switch to Eclipse 4.3 base
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5. Titanium News
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In other Titanium related news….
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There was some buzz around using the Genymotion
Android emulator - which is extremely fast. Supported by
Titanium CLI and Studio in 3.2 release.
ChariTi was profiled in Appcelerator’s Developer Blog
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6. Meetup Tidbits
Meetup Tidbits
The next meetup will be on January14th (pending
location availability). Danny Hanold will present a case
study on the technical development of MisterApp using
Titanium, marketing challenges, in-app payments, ad
networks, app store optimization and using Drupal for
back-end services.
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7. Behavior Driven Development for Titanium
In this presentation, Andrew McElroy will present the advantages of using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for
creating automated tests to improve the development of Titanium and Alloy applications. He will further discuss his
TiCucumber library which enables the seamless use of Cucumber with Alloy.
Andrew is a Titanium Certified Expert (TCE), Certified Instructor (TCI) and is
the cofounder of CodexLabs LLC. He has been writing software (either as a
hobby or professionally) for over 20 years and is best known for bringing back
TryRuby.org.
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He has industry experience as a full stack software engineer -- working on
everything from configuring and custom compiling a Linux kernel, to
developing a Rails site, to administrating various databases, to automating
cloud or datacenter infrastructure with Puppet and/or Capistrano, to Building
Mobile apps either in Objective C (iOS) or with Appcelerator's Titanium.
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8. Contact Info
NYC Titanium User’s Group
John Oliva
Organizer for NYC Titanium User’s Group
Certified Titanium Developer Titanium Titan
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