The Frenzied Panic of Rushing
Last week I wrote a blog entitled The Startup Trap in which I lamented the unfortunate tendency of developers in a startup to cast...more.
Testing
The Pragmatics of TDD
So my last blog: The Startup Trap raised quite a ruckus. Amidst the various shouts of agreement and support, there was also a group...more.
The Start-Up Trap
- You have joined a new startup.
- You are a multi-talented mega-being.
- You can work 60, 70, 80 hours per week to get the job...more.
Migrating from RSpec Dynamic Mocks to Surrogate - Part 2
This blog is Part 2 of a series of blogs about migrating to Surrogate. Part 1 can be found here. If you are unfamiliar...more.
Migrating from RSpec Dynamic Mocks to Surrogate - Part 1
Here's the situation: You use RSpec. You like RSpec. But you want more confidence from your tests than you get with RSpec's dynamic mocks while...more.
Testing Recursion
A short post to start the new year. Let's imagine that you are building an application that requires the application of a specific algorithm, but...more.
Welcome To The Gilded Rose (in Clojure)
There's a special sort of satisfication I get from turning absolutely awful code into a well-tested, well-factored program. Not only have I increased the...more.
Testing Boundaries
Sometimes we need to test our interaction with a certain dependency, but doing so proves difficult. But using a certain trick, we can get nearly...more.
With Proper TDD, You Get That
How does one develop software the "old-fashioned" way? Here is how my very first, non-TDD* version of Tic-Tac-Toe went.
First thing's first...more.
Test Driven Assembly
I tend to be a skeptical person. When I encounter a new idea, I often start on the offense. I try to force the...more.
A Scope Heuristic
One of my first exposures to TDD was through a code kata. I was mortified.
The performer test-drove his way to a...more.
The Letter
We need to become a self-regulating and self-policing profession. The stakes are simply too high to allow software to remain in the current ad-hoc limbo...more.
Flipping the Bit
There’s a bit you need to flip in your head. It’s just one bit. In this blog we’ll call it “THE BIT”. Some...more.
Avoiding Common Errors in Your Jasmine Test Suite
Working with Javascript can be, at best, a mildly frustrating experience. As I've started to work more with Jasmine and Backbone.js, I've...more.
Double Entry Bookkeeping Dilemma. Should I Invest or Not?
A few days ago I found this blog, which makes the case that
software developers who use TDD, should be pragmatic about...more.
That's Not Yours
My first exposure to mock objects was in C++, where they are practically indecipherable to the TDD newbie, so I didn't use them. That...more.
Simple Hickey
Rich Hickey gave a great talk at Strange Loop entitled Simple Made Easy. I strongly recommend you spend an hour and listen to...more.
Testing Code That's hard to test
So if you're like me, you're 5'10" and sport a ruggedly awesome beard. And if you're really like me, you swallowed the T/BDD pill years...more.
10 Ways to Do Acceptance Testing Wrong
If there is one thing I’ve learned about Acceptance Testing (AT) it’s that there are a lot of ways to mess it...more.
A scenario where tests help facilitate compatibility and communication
Let's start off with some backstory: there was a time when only one Ruby implementation existed in the world: Matz's own Ruby Interpreter (MRI)...more.
That‘s Not In My String!
We encountered a strange spec failure today in our continuous integration build. It’s a Rails project, we’re using RSpec, and this was the failing...more.
Clean Acceptance Tests
Acceptance testing was one of the first challenges I faced during my apprenticeship. I learned that complexity scales in proportion to the number of...more.
TDD in education, they're doing it wrong
This blog post originally appeared on a blog I maintain for my current game development class. Generally speaking my posts over there are pretty...more.
Up and running with TDD on Android
A couple of weeks ago, I happened to be in the right place at the right time (the first ORD Session) when Google hooked...more.
When is a Mock not a Mock
A couple of weeks ago I had to add a feature to some code that was written almost two years ago. It was a...more.
Lessons Of A Craftsman: Are You Test Driving, Or Just Writing Tests?
Recently I wrote the beginnings of a blackjack game in Java, and I found myself making a common error. The Java gameplay mechanic uses...more.
Test Driven Debugging
I hate debugging. Loathe it, despise it, pick your synonym and I’ll use it. Computer programming is building something out of nothing, making the...more.
Test Driving Module Methods—Part Two
Ever write an entire blog post, spend significant time on it, correct it, and eventually grow to love it, only to discover two months...more.
Three Reasons to Use FitNesse
Using FitNesse allows you to communicate with the customer up front. Before a line of code is written, you can have all the...more.
Getting started with Rails and FitNesse
This is intended to be a tutorial to get you started using FitNesse with ruby on Rails. There is some explanation needed about FitNesse,...more.
BOC
BOC is a testing pattern that Unclebob briefly mentioned on fitnesse.org shortly after it was published. It describes the typical steps taken in an...more.
Self Shunt
The self-shunt method of testing has been conflicting for me. Self-shunt is a good testing pattern to test observers/views. A colleague of mine has...more.
Prelude to the Mock Off
David Chelimsky puts it gently…We’ve actually had some heated arguments about these mocking frameworks and it’a all kinda silly. In the end we’re writing...more.
Over Mocking
I’ve noticed using more mocks lately. Instead of using them sparingly for controlling services which are not instrumental to what I am testing, I’m...more.
Fresh Testing
Sometimes I sit down to write a test on something I haven’t worked on before or don’t know intimately, and I just can’t write...more.