Building high performance and robust AJAX applications is challenging at best, particularly without proper quality assurance and testing techniques. Dave will discuss how to set up a test framework, methodology, and build process that works reliably and automates much of the tedious manual effort associated with browser based development.

As well as strategies and techniques for building bullet-proof AJAX, Dave will walk through testing and debugging in the context of current tools such as FireBug, JSUnit, Selenium, CruiseControl and more. Finally, Dave will look at how to find memory leaks and increase performance through JavaScript optimizations.

Dave is the co-founder, CTO and self proclaimed XML Evangelist of Nitobi Software, a Vancouver based AJAX component vendor. Dave focuses his energy on architecting and building high performance AJAX components for web based applications. He will present this session at the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, October 2-4, 2006, in Santa Clara, California.