My life as a CF developer

I am currently employed as web application developer at the Academy for Educational Develoment(AED) in Washington, DC. AED uses Fusebox 4.1 for its ColdFusion development. I was familiar with Fusebox, having toyed with it a few years ago back in Fusebox 3, so I wasn’t coming in totally cold, but pretty close. During my first week, I did a lot of reading due to the fact that my laptop had not arrived; I was hired right after the holidays and things moved much faster than their normal hiring process with the exception of the equipment.

I’m taking the plunge into CFUnit

I have gotten to the point now where I’m fairly comfortable with Eclipse and CFEclipse, having used both for the past year. I don’t even have Dreamweaver installed on my new work laptop. Since I was in software QA before becoming a developer I am aware of the importance of unit testing, but have not really practiced it. After last year’s CFUnited, I was introduced to CFUnit, but never really got into it. So here I am ready to dive in to CFUnit. Over the next few days, weeks, etc., I will be documenting my experience with this seemingly useful tool. With the help of the most awesome ColdFusion user community, I have managed to locate a long list of references and tutorials. My adventure begins this evening as I try to set up unit tests for the latest application I’m working on in the office. The CFCs are already in place, so all I should need to do is set up my tests. Wish me luck.