Writing secure Flex apps with help from SWFScan

HP SWFScan, a free tool developed by HP Web Security Research Group, will automatically find security vulnerabilities in applications built on the Flash platform.

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Resources:

• http://www.hp.com/go/swfscan

FlexMonkey - Flex UI test

Busy, busy, busy work... black September for me.

FlexMonkey is a unit testing framework for Flex apps that provides for automating the testing of Flex UI functionality. FlexMonkey can record and play back Flex UI interactions, and generates ActionScript-based testing scripts that can easily be included within a continuous integration process. It uses the Flex Automation API and was created by adapting Adobe's sample application, AutoQuick.
See the Getting Started Guide for a quick overview of installing, recording, and running tests with FlexMonkey.
FlexMonkey has been donated to the Flex community by Gorilla Logic, who developed FlexMonkey because of their belief that only a monkey would develop code without being able to automate their unit testing.

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Resources:

• http://code.google.com/p/flexmonkey/

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RIA Benchmark

James Ward:

The goal of this application is to demonstrate various methods of loading data in RIAs and see how those methods impact performance, bandwidth, and client memory usage. These benchmarks aim to be honest and unbiased. Thus they are open source and anyone can submit patches to have new tests added or to have the existing tests improved. Yet, these tests should always fairly represent real world uses of these technologies.

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Resources:

• http://www.jamesward.com/census/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexapps

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Flex Filter Explorer

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