
The 7 habits of highly effective people is an influential and best-selling book which coined terms such as proactivitiy. I'm a developer by day, so I wondered...
0 replies - 44702 views - 02/21/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

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...
0 replies - 6250 views - 01/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

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...
4 replies - 7564 views - 01/03/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

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...
1 replies - 4799 views - 12/15/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

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...
1 replies - 7853 views - 12/12/11 by Dror Helper in Articles

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...
0 replies - 3953 views - 12/07/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

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...
2 replies - 6017 views - 12/05/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

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...
9 replies - 14032 views - 11/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

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...
0 replies - 7169 views - 11/18/11 by Martin Fowler in Articles

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...
1 replies - 2566 views - 11/09/11 by Dennis Doomen in News

The recently published book "Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef" is not a proscriptive book as far as tooling, despite having "Chef" in...
0 replies - 4709 views - 10/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

This is a language agnostic post: it is valid for each object-oriented imperative language like Java, C#, PHP. Let's start from the beginning: a web service...
8 replies - 6806 views - 10/20/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Imagine an ant working at the top of a mountain. Next to it, there’s a
sluice of melt water running and, at that moment, the ant removes a tiny
particle...
3 replies - 7736 views - 09/01/11 by Daniel Ackerson in News

CoffeeScript is a language building an abstraction over JavaScript (as the similar name suggests.) It is an abstraction over the syntax of JavaScript, not over...
0 replies - 7014 views - 08/09/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

I’ve found this question while going over my old StackOverflow answers:I'm
using reflection to loop through a Type's properties and set certain
types to...
1 replies - 6369 views - 07/18/11 by Dror Helper in News