James Betteley03/22/12
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A while ago I ordered a copy of “Test-Driven Infrastructure with
Chef” from Amazon. It must have been sometime last summer in fact. It
took months to arrive, because they simply didn’t have...
Giorgio Sironi03/15/12
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Can we build anything with TDD, or do we need some design up front?
Steve Hanov03/06/12
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If you are setting up a regression test system, it should be effortless to create a new test, and it should be able to run hundreds of tests in five minutes. Here are the 3 rules you should follow for TDD.
Giorgio Sironi03/06/12
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How to test that something eventually happens or does not happen at all?
Giorgio Sironi02/28/12
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Python ships a unit testing framework which is really easy to test-drive your code with.
Giorgio Sironi02/21/12
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The 7 habits of Stephen Covey can be applied to software development too. Let's start with the failure of an Internet connection.
Giorgio Sironi01/26/12
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Tests developed during TDD can be classified into several levels, depending on the size of the object graph they need to work with. End-to-end tests span the whole application graph, while unit tests usually target a single public class at a time.
Giorgio Sironi01/03/12
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This article describes some practices for test-driving multithreaded and distributed applications written in Java. The example I worked on and we will use is a peer-to-peer application composed of many Nodes (clients) and of a few Supernodes (servers).The...
Giorgio Sironi12/15/11
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In this article we're going to develop an example of jQuery plugin with the aid of jsTestDriver, a little framework for writing automated tests.jQuery pluginsPlugins in jQuery are simply functions added to jQuery.fn, which is the prototype of the objects...
Dror Helper12/12/11
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I was listening to another good Hanselminuets podcast - Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan.
As always it was a good and informative show. Towards the end of the
show one of the interviewees (I think it was Amir) explained why BDD...
Giorgio Sironi12/07/11
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Jasmine is a BDD framework for JavaScript (or CoffeeScript) code, which helps you specify and test your classes and functions as the same time.Jasmine is not derived from the classic xUnit API, but features Behavior-Driven Development syntax, composed of easy...
Giorgio Sironi12/05/11
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This Saturday, 2200 software developers gathered in more than 90 cities around the world to improve their skills. This Global Day of Code Retreat was the biggest edition of such an event.
Mitch Pronschinske11/28/11
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There is a huge number of books about TDD. Those books usually
concentrate on using test for units of work. Units of work are
understood in many different ways, usually it means a class. So the
books say: write a lot of tests, make code in such a way the...
Martin Fowler11/18/11
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I was attending a workshop at XP/Agile Universe in 2002 when the
phrase 'Specification By Example' struck me as a way to describe one
of roles of testing in XP.
This is a 2011 Retread of post orginally made on 18 Mar 2004
Dennis Doomen11/09/11
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Indeed it is, in particular within the part of the .NET community that
believes test-first development is non-negotiable. We receive more and more
suggestions, contributions and questions, and we’ve started to notice some blog
posts here and there.
