P.S. the other key thing is that you want your build to be informative. By which I mean: 1) It runs fast so that you can run it often. 2) It fails quickly when...
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Chris Morris
the.chrismo@...
May 24, 2010 8:34 pm
... One of the most untrue statements overheard at the mall, "Timmy, I'm not going tell you again ... " -- Chris http://improvingenterprises.com ...
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tony_t_tubbs
May 25, 2010 4:12 pm
Thanks all. Your input has helped clarify how CI works - all the pieces parts. It turns out that our system is doing much more than I thought too. I don't...
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Ajithesh Hegde
amano_k
May 25, 2010 10:41 pm
Hi, I want to get a first hand experience of TDD by writing a few C programs following the TDD principles. On windows, are there IDEs that provide an in-built...
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
May 25, 2010 11:02 pm
Not really. You would build a console app and get textual output. In Visual Studio you can run the app in a "post-linker" step, so test failures show up in the...
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Joshua Kerievsky
jlk112067
May 25, 2010 11:09 pm
... Like Keith said, I'm not aware of IDEs that provide in-built support for TDD in C. However, as part of work we've done to produce Agile eLearning for C, ...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
May 25, 2010 11:32 pm
Yep. It's slow and sucky relative to languages with better tools, but it works. I've done a couple experiments with nothing but emacs, gcc, and assert, just to...
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D.André Dhondt
wile_e_kycodey
May 26, 2010 4:05 am
... Does it have to be C? If you're on Windows, why not C# or C++? -- D. André Dhondt mobile: 011 33 671 034 984 twitter: adhondt...
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Andrea Francia
andrea52b
May 26, 2010 7:23 am
... You may want to use Visual Studio C++ Express with Google C++ Testing Framework [1]. Strictly speaking this is not C but for C++ which is a super set of C....
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Chet Hendrickson
suechet
May 26, 2010 1:44 pm
Hello Ajithesh, As far as I know, there is no good IDE support for TDD in C. If I was wanting to learn TDD, I would try to learn the basics in a supported ...
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
May 26, 2010 5:37 pm
I have done TDD in C with just the standard library "assert" macro - it stops the whole program when an assertions fails, so it's not ideal. Also, TDDing in C...
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Ray Tayek
rtayek
May 26, 2010 7:52 pm
... eclipse cdt will get you some help. some are listed here: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=tree&th=152301& i had some luck with either cppunit or...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
May 26, 2010 8:04 pm
I like googletest, unless you are avoiding C++ for some reason. There are some xUnit style frameworks for plain C, but I tried them a couple years ago and...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
May 27, 2010 5:51 am
I just posted this to the LAJUG list, and I was proud of it so I wanted to share: The Java programmer's rules of design, in order of priority: 1) Should not...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
May 27, 2010 5:53 am
P.S. If you are a Java programmer and this makes you sad just substitute your least favorite of: C#, C++, or Perl. It works for them too :-D...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
May 27, 2010 3:26 pm
Okay, Adam: RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW put that on a blog so I can post links to it!!!! Please. Tim Ottinger http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com/ ...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
May 27, 2010 7:33 pm
You can find it here: http://www.bigvisible.com/asroka/java-developers-rules-of-design/ ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
May 27, 2010 9:05 pm
You've been tweeted. Tks for doing that. It inspired many giggles. Tim Ottinger http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com/ http://agileotter.blogspot.com/...
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Jeff Anderson
thomasjeffre...
May 28, 2010 1:10 pm
After a conversation with a very senior banking exec I feel I need to respond with the following: As a good java architect - I need to predict where my...
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Bill Caputo
logosity
May 28, 2010 2:00 pm
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jeff Anderson ... Thank god you left out 'Enterprise' from that title or my head would've exploded... ...here's my analysis of...
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
May 28, 2010 2:07 pm
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Bill Caputo < ... names anonymous to protect the individuals. It went something along the lines of a famous XP consultant...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
May 28, 2010 4:59 pm
hmm... I don't know about that. I do know that there is an implicit rule as a part of #4: all of the classes I need includes Oracle, Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat,...
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Jared Jones
jaredmjonessr
May 28, 2010 6:44 pm
Hey Adam, Here's some rules for implementing XP that go along with your theme. If you give a developer a task, he's going to want a story. If you give a...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
May 28, 2010 10:14 pm
Interesting. Not sure what those have to do with XP. Perhaps you meant to say Scrum ;-) Anyway, I like the tail recursion. ... [Non-text portions of this...
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Muhammad Waseem
wasi_msse
May 30, 2010 5:54 pm
HI ALL Hope you all are doing well, I am confused about deciding about what is software actually is called. Some people say LOC is a part of S/W...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
May 30, 2010 6:18 pm
Muhammed, ... What's the reason behind the question? - George -- ... * George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com Software Development...
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
May 30, 2010 11:30 pm
"software architecture" is poorly defined, it seems to relate to boxes and lines in PowerPoint slides. :-) LOC means "lines of code" - often used as a very...
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xtremenilanjan
May 31, 2010 1:42 pm
Some agile teams I have spoken to and a few accounts I have read, do a certain amount of testing after the iteration is complete. The idea is that acceptance...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
May 31, 2010 11:03 pm
Hello, xtremenilanjan. On Monday, May 31, 2010, at 9:38:43 AM, ... Clearly it is difficult to do all the exploratory testing within the iteration, unless...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Jun 1, 2010 12:03 am
Bill Wake has an old article on his site that describes the nature of good stories and tasks. It says that tasks should be "SMART: Specific, Measurable,...
