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Re: [TDD] Erroneous Assertion about TDD
Very well said Russ! ________________________________ To: testdrivendevelopment@... Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2013 5:12 AM Subject: Re: [TDD] Erroneous Assertion about TDD "is there any
By Gábos Alpár · #35340 ·
Re: [TDD] Erroneous Assertion about TDD
"is there any room left for creativity in coding?" That's hilarious. Let's reach back in time� As poets focus more on rhyme schemes and meter, where is there room for creativity? Now they have this
By Russell Gold · #35339 ·
Re: Value and Principles of Unit Testing.
--- John Carter <john.carter@...> wrote: There is no "right." We strive to do a good job. But there is always room for improvement. You try your best ideas with the team. And then you, as a team,
By JeffGrigg · #35338 ·
Re: [TDD] Value and Principles of Unit Testing.
John Carter wrote: I think you have a lot of good stuff in there and it would be worth making a presentation as someone else on the list suggested. Also for anyone learning TDD and testing I
By Michal Svoboda · #35337 ·
Re: [TDD] Value and Principles of Unit Testing.
Jonh, In the GOOS list someone asked it: worth it? The context was that, for him, may be only ATs (Acceptance Tests) was enough. Follows my answer why I still value unit tests. As you write about
By Josue Barbosa dos Santos · #35336 ·
Re: [TDD] Value and Principles of Unit Testing.
John C, Is there some way you can add a bit of structure? Personally I find it hard to read because it's just a bunch of sentences with no paragraphing and no headings. Perhaps if you can think of it
By Donaldson, John <john.m.donaldson@...> · #35335 ·
Re: [TDD] Value and Principles of Unit Testing.
Two thoughts: 1) if you aren't finding smells in your own code that means you've stopped learning. Have someone else look and listen to what they say. 2) there are always too many places to look.
By Adam Sroka · #35334 ·
Value and Principles of Unit Testing.
The following is aimed at a my own team, but before I inflict it on them, I thought I would run past the wise folks of this forum. Suggestions, comments, flames all welcome. What I write below is
By John Carter · #35333 ·
ANN: NUnitLite 0.9 Release
Hi All, I'm announcing the release of NUnitLite 0.9 today. In case you were not aware, NUnitLite has surprised me by attracting a lot of users who previously used full-on NUnit. I originally
By Charlie Poole · #35332 ·
Re: [TDD] Re: If you could get your colleagues to read just one book on TDD, which would it be?
I came up with an easy way to generate Mikado diagrams programmatically using Ruby-Graphviz.  One of the co-authors of the book (Ola) liked it.  Here's an example.  The Mikado has two direct
By Al Chou · #35331 ·
Re: [TDD] [Summary] If you could get your colleagues to read just one book on TDD, which would it be?
I for one think it's a very good book on its own merit. There are other good books on TDD, and GOOS is certainly one of the best, but I think it's better to read and ponder this one
By Matteo Vaccari · #35330 ·
[Summary] If you could get your colleagues to read just one book on TDD, which would it be?
Test Driven Development by Example (Kent Beck) + 4 GOOS + 2 Refactoring + 2 Working Effectively With Legacy Code + 2 Clean Code + 1 The Mikado Method (mikadomethod.org) RSpec Agile Software
By John Carter · #35329 ·
Re: [TDD] Re: If you could get your colleagues to read just one book on TDD, which would it be?
Now THAT is a Very Good Find! An Excellent Book! Thanks, just what I was hoping for! -- ------------------------------ This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended recipient.
By John Carter · #35328 ·
Re: [TDD] What I hate about *Unit frameworks.
It could, but it doesn't necessarily. The only time I have ever seen it become a problem is when someone was doing something they shouldn't irrespective of the fact that it was in a test. Also, it's
By Adam Sroka · #35327 ·
Re: [TDD] What I hate about *Unit frameworks.
Adam, Thanks for the admonition. I was just trying to explain how monkey-patching causes more interference between tests than mocks do. - George
By George Dinwiddie · #35326 ·
Re: [TDD] What I hate about *Unit frameworks.
Perl was my first professional language. I am not afraid of monkey patching. A hammer is a useful tool. Please refrain from hitting yourself with it.
By Adam Sroka · #35325 ·
Re: [TDD] What I hate about *Unit frameworks.
Adam, No, with monkey patching you're often messing up *library code* to the detriment of other tests. Maybe. Or maybe your monkey patching makes other tests work, but the app doesn't when it's in
By George Dinwiddie · #35324 ·
Re: [TDD] What I hate about *Unit frameworks.
Hi George: That makes sense, but you can do the same thing to yourself with mocks. That's why you have to make sure you write microtests for both sides of the relationship and cover the same
By Adam Sroka · #35323 ·
Re: [TDD] What I hate about *Unit frameworks.
Adam, Monkey patching is a common method to create testing seams, even by people who would not use monkey patching in the deliverable system code. It's a quick-and-dirty way of mocking using the real
By George Dinwiddie · #35322 ·
Re: [TDD] What I hate about *Unit frameworks.
Well - the same thing kind-of applies in perl. Default initialisation and left over correct values can lead to the wrong behaviour in Perl too. I'm sure there are per-language issues - but those
By Adrian Howard <adrianh@...> · #35321 ·