Hello Ajithesh The team you are talking to might be interested in my book. Test Driven Development for Embedded C. It is currently in its first beta release...
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Allen Higgins
allen_c_higgins
Apr 6, 2010 3:37 pm
Nice, now to find a European supplier of StikkiClips... Allen ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Apr 6, 2010 4:13 pm
... If you find one let me know - I failed and resorted to bribing friends to bring some over for me. I know have a nice stash at home :) Karl -- Karl Scotland...
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
Apr 6, 2010 4:51 pm
... infinite loop using recursion. You will get a stack overflow very quickly. I'm assuming the Haskel compiler converts tail recursion syntax into a loop, ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Apr 6, 2010 5:43 pm
Hello, Allen. On Tuesday, April 6, 2010, at 11:36:38 AM, you ... I bought some. We tested one today. What they will do well is stay in one place on the wall...
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Ted Young
tedyoung
Apr 6, 2010 6:48 pm
True - they're not meant to be moved very much: how much you can move and re-stick them depends on the surface you're sticking them to. They can leave marks on...
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Victor
vmgoldberg2
Apr 6, 2010 6:58 pm
A magnetic board helps. Then magnetic clips (or refrigerator clips) will do the job. Víctor ... From: "Ron Jeffries" <ronjeffries@...> To:...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Apr 6, 2010 8:49 pm
... Good point Ron. I came across them at the Kanban Conference in Miami last year because they work well if you are explicitly limitting WIP to a fixed ...
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Rick Mugridge
rickmugridge
Apr 6, 2010 9:36 pm
... That's right. In Haskell and Scala the last call in a tail-recursive function is compiled into a jump - and hence it acts as a loop. The same technique can...
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Ted Young
tedyoung
Apr 6, 2010 9:40 pm
Hi Karl, Exactly. And watch out for folks putting multiple cards on a single clip. ... (Yes, it's happened, and it was a good opportunity to reinforce _why_...
... Yes, I can see that for a permanent card area they might be quite nifty. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com www.xprogramming.com/blog It is not because...
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arnaud.baillly
Apr 7, 2010 6:48 am
... As already answered by Rick, you are right. But this is just implementation details, the idea being that as soon as you have in your code something like: ...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Apr 7, 2010 1:09 pm
The infinite loop is the dull part not worth testing: while(1) { DoSomething(); } I don't test things that aren't interesting enough. In the above loop, the...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Apr 7, 2010 1:20 pm
... I expect that we all do much the same, in practice. The "interesting" question is whether there is a way, using strict TDD, to bring the while(1) into...
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Kim Gräsman
kimgrasman
Apr 8, 2010 6:41 am
Hi Ron, ... I guess you'd still need a mechanism for preventing the tests from hanging when you introduce the while(1)... Did you have something in mind? ...
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Ajithesh Hegde
amano_k
Apr 8, 2010 9:54 am
Hi, Some of the Agile principles (such as Pair Programming, Collaborative development) seem to make a lot of sense in the study environments (for eg. colleges,...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Apr 8, 2010 10:11 am
... Hmm, no. LFMF. :) Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com www.xprogramming.com/blog The work teaches us. -- Richard Gabriel...
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javier
vrhj2000
Apr 8, 2010 1:53 pm
I think that you could use the idea of Loops in Eiffel (more about this http://se.ethz.ch/people/furia/pubs/InferringLoopInvPost-TR09.pdf) Verifying...
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Tom
rossentj
Apr 8, 2010 6:59 pm
I hesitate to suggest such ugly complexity - but ... maybe have the test start the target in a separate thread which it can kill when it's satisfied ... in a...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Apr 8, 2010 7:30 pm
... At which point it may no longer be the simplest thing that could possibly work ;-) How would you change the test so that it was?...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Apr 8, 2010 8:40 pm
We could avoid that issue by using something like while(!stop()) instead of while(1), but then we have to build the stop signal into our tests. Suppose the...
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Tom
rossentj
Apr 8, 2010 10:09 pm
Eggzackly - hence my hesitation....
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onlyareminder
Apr 9, 2010 12:16 am
Agile Bazaar May Meeting 05/06/10: Nanette Brown: Agile and Architecture: Crossing the Great Divide ... What: New England Agile Bazaar May meeting Topic:...
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charlie poole
cpoole98370
Apr 9, 2010 5:32 am
Hi All, NUnit 2.5.4 is now available at http://launchpad.net/nunitv2. See the release notes below. Charlie Features * NUnit now defaults to running an assembly...
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Bill Michell
billmichell
Apr 9, 2010 11:46 am
Well, an infinite loop is definitely a special case construct - not something that you want to see in normal usage. Sounds like what we are looking for is a...
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Júlio Venâncio
juliovenancio01
Apr 9, 2010 10:37 pm
Dear Colleagues, We would like to inform you that the deadline for submissions to Fourth Workshop on Rapid Application Development is extended to: *April 18th,...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Apr 9, 2010 10:50 pm
XP: Except if you use git. Then you can fork when the wind blows. Disgust? -- Phlip http://penbird.deviantart.com/art/YARBK-Charlie-Brown-160096965...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Apr 10, 2010 12:20 am
Change that to DVCS, not Git in particular. Forking is okay, unless you want changes to flow between the tines of the fork. If not, then forking is okay. If...
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extremeprogrammer
extremeprogr...
Apr 10, 2010 7:19 pm
Is 'fork' the same as 'branch' here? Regards, Lance...
