from the person who brought you the dangers of agile<http://agileconsulting.blogspot.com/2009/03/dangers-of-agile.html> Our team has started to implement...
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Pankaj Agrawal
pankaj.nuniwal
Apr 3, 2010 7:02 pm
Dear Sir/Madam My name is Pankaj Agrawal. I am currently pursuing MTech(Masters) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. As part of my MTech Thesis,...
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Abder-Rahman
abderrahmana...
Apr 3, 2010 7:06 pm
Simply follow this link to view the article: http://www.agilejavaoop.com/java/how-to-make-your-java-code-understandable/...
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strazhce
Apr 4, 2010 4:29 pm
Hi, ... ok, this is a basic principle - no magic numbers. Not new, but very important. This made me think... We have a codebase, where we use named constants....
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
Apr 4, 2010 6:06 pm
Primitive obsession is bad. Whenever you have a value that has a meaning, I strongly encourage you to consider making it an object. Often, once you have the...
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Bill Caputo
logosity
Apr 4, 2010 9:50 pm
Hi All, This is one of those test-first situations that I'm never happy with: How to implement a requirement that a process not terminate (or possibly until...
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Larry Brunelle
larrybrunelle
Apr 4, 2010 11:01 pm
Hm, what comes to mind is that for stuff that runs while(true), you are at the mercy of at least 3 issues. o You are killed externally by a system restart or...
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
Apr 4, 2010 11:58 pm
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bill Caputo < ... functions you can and test them. The loop isn't tested in the unit tests because unit tests have to be fast....
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Apr 5, 2010 2:22 am
... This reminds me of the halting problem, and if I were clever I could probably reduce it to that. In some sense, there is no way to prove that a program...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Apr 5, 2010 2:26 am
I don't see what's so hard about this. You just need to connect your test harness to your time traveling hot tub, go to the Restaurant at the End of the...
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Bill Caputo
logosity
Apr 5, 2010 3:17 am
So, in summary: Short of hitching a ride on the heart of gold while eating some fairy cake (in a hot tub), we are left with acknowledging that we've run smack...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Apr 5, 2010 4:11 am
Sorry for being flippant with my allusions ;-) The problem you've stated is to prove that something doesn't happen ever. Worse, the thing you don't want to...
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Bill Caputo
logosity
Apr 5, 2010 4:38 am
... Not all, I loved it. My reply wasn't meant to be sarcastic, I actually do suspect a test can't be written -- but to clarify, I'll restate the ... The...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Apr 5, 2010 9:07 am
... Yes, if you do that, you'll know. But you forget a key fact: You can't go back on your own time line. There's no way to get the information back to your...
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Vladimir Ignatov
vovka_morkov...
Apr 5, 2010 9:11 am
Hello, Several years ago I definetily face a situation there I need to test an infinite loop. After some thinking I just introduce a special "for-test-only"...
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Andrew
ajwall.geo
Apr 5, 2010 2:18 pm
... Hi Bill, I think of the rules of simplicity: You have the idea of 'something that runs forever'. Capture that, and only that, in tests. I would think of...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Apr 5, 2010 2:43 pm
Hello, Andrew. On Monday, April 5, 2010, at 10:13:43 AM, you ... That's rather interesting ... thanks! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com ...
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Andrew
ajwall.geo
Apr 5, 2010 3:03 pm
... I can think of tests that would drive: while(doIKeepGoing()) doStuff() ... Andrew Wall Still not doing XP...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Apr 5, 2010 3:37 pm
Hi, Ted, I finally got around to watching your video. Very nice! I especially like the time-lapse sequence showing people working together in an organic...
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julescov
Apr 5, 2010 3:54 pm
... Surely you're doing the simplest thing that could possibly work, right? And if you have a test that requires the loop circles at least n times (for some...
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mthlr
Apr 5, 2010 7:09 pm
I'm not sure I understand where the issue is. The infinite loop is an implementation choice. TDD says we need to write our test first and then do the simplest...
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Júlio Venâncio
juliovenancio01
Apr 5, 2010 7:12 pm
-- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for Submissions: April 09th, 2010 * IV Workshop on Rapid Application Development - WDRA 2010* http://pma.dsc.upe.br/wdra2010/ ...
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
Apr 5, 2010 7:38 pm
... I don't think you are confused at all. I think you are spot on. Bill is asking in the situation where an infinite loop "will" be the implementation how, or...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Apr 5, 2010 8:04 pm
... I have never TDDed the loop per se. What I would typically do is TDD the interesting stuff that happens in the loop. I would also write some end-to-end...
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Andrew
ajwall.geo
Apr 5, 2010 8:48 pm
... Great video Ted. Tell us about the story boards. What is the mechanism that sticks the cards to the boards? - I noticed the cards stayed on the board, but...
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extremeprogrammer
extremeprogr...
Apr 5, 2010 9:10 pm
Hi. There are many reasons that yield substantial value: 1. It's an enumerated value 2. It's not an arbitrary integer 3. It helps the code to document itself ...
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arnaud.baillly
Apr 5, 2010 9:53 pm
Hello, When I do TDD in a functional language (eg. Haskell, scala), and even in Java, it is very natural to use recursion instead of iteration. So an...
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Ted Young
tedyoung
Apr 5, 2010 10:35 pm
Hi Andrew, Thanks. We switched from using Sortable Post-It Cards to using StikkiClips and regular index cards. That way cards no longer fall off the wall and...
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Ajithesh Hegde
amano_k
Apr 6, 2010 3:07 pm
Andre, Thanks for the reply! And sorry for my late response. My role is that of a consultant. I am not directly interacting with the team. I am only talking...
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James Grenning
jwgrenning
Apr 6, 2010 3:30 pm
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...
