I recently switched jobs. I left Smartstream for somewhere closer to home. I did this primarily to avoid the commute from Cardiff to Aztec West, in Bristol. I'll be glad to avoid that drive on the M4 every day. I joined Move, who are based in Utah but have a development office not too far from Cardiff.
Having been working in the familiar world of server–side Java before Christmas, I‘ve now moved to the team that work on what we call the “middleware”. Primarily, this is the client software that runs on set–top boxes or web browsers. This is therefore almost entirely JavaScript.
Developing software that is primarily JavaScript is a new experience for me and one I‘m relishing, if with some trepidation. After a bit of Googling, I‘ve basically concluded that there isn‘t vast support for TDD for JavaScript development. This is especially true of IDE support. One thing that does look promising is JsTestDriver, though I‘ve been having trouble getting it to work reliably. This is most likely lack of familiarity with both JavaScript and JsTestDriver.
This is challenging stuff, but that‘s great as far as I‘m concerned.
First published on Jan 5, 2010. Last updated on: Jan 5, 2010.
I'm Elwyn Malethan and this is my blog. I am a software craftsman with over 10
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