Vernon started in the computer industry as a programmer in 1990, and since then has worked in a number of differnet fields, including DBA, sysadmin, development, support, working for companies. His has worked around the world, for companies like Prism Payment Technology in South Africa, Petronas in Malaysia, and, more recently Sun Microsystems in Ireland.

His career as a test automator started in South Africa with Prism, were he was tasked to ensure the integrity and correctness of electronic payment transactions, and decided there has to be an easier way than doing it manually.

He now does test and process automation for Sun Microsystems, and is on the international steering committee for test automation within Sun.

Automated testing of patches to ensure they conform to requirements, install, uninstall, and are complete.

Automated testing that patches do not negatively impact the the functionality of the system.

George Clulow is a Principal Technical Specialist in the Dublin Software Laboratory, Ireland. He worked on Lotus brand software in the Software Group and has recently commenced work on web tooling within IBM Software Group. His experience in test ranges across localisation, globalisation, globalisation tool development and web applications.

Building quality into every stage of the product development cycle is a critical step in enabling us to determine when and what we can ship as we approach ever tightening deadlines. We are all looking for ways to enhance our quality assurance confidence. JUnit has been incorporated into many of our cycles and seen to build in a level of quality assurance. Cactus is an extension of JUnit and can be effectively used in the testing of JSPs.

This session will give some background on JSPs and JUnit. The Cactus framework will be explained covering what it is and it's purpose in tests. During the session I will also give experience of my team's reasons for choosing cactus and how we implemented it and what progress we've seen with it.