Carl Marcum

The talk will discuss current state of Unit testing in the Apache OpenOffice project and the effort to update the test suites to be useful standalone to run tests against an installed office without being tied to the OpenOffice build process. Also areas where Java developers could get involved.

The talk will discuss using the Apache Groovy programming language with Apache OpenOffice UNO API's and some associated projects that allow this to happen. Projects include the Groovy UNO Extension that adds convenience methods to the OpenOffice API's allowing less coding, an OpenOffice Extension that adds Groovy as a macro language to the office, and an associated extension to add sample macros to the office written in Groovy. Examples of usages like Groovy scripts as OpenOffice client applications, OpenOffice macros in Groovy, and a compiled OpenOffice extension application in Groovy.