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... many ... much ... simpler way. Hi all, I just started reading Chapter 1. (Thanks Nat & Steve for posting the book online). Maybe it's just my eye-sight....
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At the beginning of the section “Unit Testing Collaborating Objects” you say that “We appear to have painted ourselves into a corner”. In the previous...
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Very good points. Thanks for taking the time to give us such excellent feedback. We've had discussion about whether we should talk about the difference between...
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... We're trying to come up with a different visualisation that works better in the small space available in the print format. Maybe we'll sketch a few...
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... excellent feedback. Geen dank, like they say here in Holland. No worries, any time. Actually, I was trying to explain the law of demeter and wanted to ...
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This first point is a bit nitpicky: “As an acceptance test, it must run end-to-end to give us the feedback we need about the system's external...
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... Thanks. That kind of style feedback is really valuable. What we want to get across is that every part of the process can (should?) be test-driven....
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Hi Nat and Steve, Before starting please understand that English is not my mothers language, so i might have misunderstood or simply missed stuff you wrote or...
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Hi, about the following sentence: "So, to be easy to unit test, an object must have explicit dependencies that can easily be substituted, and have clear ...
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Hi, before I begin let me borrow that... ... Ok, that said... In the "Unit Testing Collaborating Objects" you start to talk about target object, which of...
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Hi, I agree with earlier comments that the text so far is just the right length. I personally hate to read pages of text when I think the concept can be...
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... Great! ... I guess we're emphasising the point because we know some people advocate the opposite: develop the end-to-end test infrastructure later, after...
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Hi Nat, Steve, Very enjoyable writings so far! ... I wonder if the word "infrastructure" implies more than you intend here? Did you mean that you get the first...
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These first 3 chapters are really great! It's incredibly helpful for our team which is attempting to adopt TDD for the first time. I've been doing a lot of...
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I found chapter 3 - "Kick-Starting the Test-Driven Cycle" a really interesting read. Are there any plans to elaborate a bit on the discussion of broad brush...
Rhydian Thomas
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Aug 14, 2008
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... We'll add a photo of a broad-brush design drawn on a whiteboard in a team-room, which will hopefully help explain the level of detail we find useful....
Nat Pryce
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I'd also say that there will some of this in the worked example. S. ... Steve Freeman Winner of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask award 2006 http://www.m3p.co.uk ...
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Hi there. Enjoying the read thus far; I am mid-way through Chapter One. One technical glitch: the link "Separate tests-as-progress and tests-as-regression"...
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Hi, just some nuances I am not a native English speaker nor writer so my style is necessarily in form of a table. Feedback is the Fundamental Tool A) It...
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Hi, everybody. Here my comments revisited: Test-Driven Development in a Nutshell As we develop the system, we use TDD to give us feedback on the quality of...
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Hi, everybody. A) I have read all three chapters so my first concern with the ch.2 is global (transverse if you want): I feel that the level and the place of...
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... We're putting up chapters one at a time, but our publishing tool chain doesn't keep track of what has been pushed to the web or not and probably never will...
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... In this book we're particularly focusing on how tests drive design and development, not on testing for QA. From that point of view, the distinction...
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... Hi. Probably some hybrid, but closer to the latter. The aim is to have a system always ready for deployment, so that the customer always has an option of...
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... I've fixed that. --Nat...
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... The book is entitled "Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests", so we need to explain what we mean by "Object-Oriented", especially as...
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... and ... A) Chapter 1: “…Unit Testing techniques, however, [are specific to a style of programming], and so are common across all systems that ...
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... etc. etc. I think we're in violent agreement about this. Every language -- Java, Smalltalk, Cobol, C, Ruby, etc. -- has its own way of modularising a...
Nat Pryce
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When you put it that way, it makes sense. For our project, unit tests and integration tests are very different because we use a mocking framework to truly...
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We will be talking about Mocks later on, but that can't be the only form of testing that we use. S. ... Steve Freeman Winner of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask...
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