Hello all! Thank you very much for the answers so far...but I am still need more data to my research. I would appreciate if more people could help me. Regards ...
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David Burstin
davidburstin...
Feb 1, 2012 11:24 pm
http://xkcd.com/386/ ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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MarvinToll.com
y153446
Feb 1, 2012 8:52 pm
In decision theory and general systems theory, a mindset is a set of assumptions, methods or notations held by one or more people or groups of people which is...
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Ken
kenno_mac
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 am
Nahh - mindframes are too restrictive. You have the wrong noun? A set can be extended unless it's closed, so perhaps we need to emphasise the right...
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MarvinToll.com
y153446
Jan 31, 2012 12:43 am
Knowing this is seemingly trivial and pedantic... I just hate the word "mindset"... thinking that the Agile mind should never be "set". Mindframe works better...
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Kelly
ladyrockmetal
Jan 30, 2012 1:44 am
I am working in a survey about good practices which are considered helpfull to the success of the use of TDD. It is part of my monograph to finish my...
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Esko Luontola
egeluontola
Jan 29, 2012 5:43 pm
... That's normal in the beginning. When I first tried TDD (it was a small utility program, without any external dependencies making things harder), I decided...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Jan 28, 2012 9:20 pm
Hi Johnny, I love this series. I recently gave a (very short) presentation<http://www.lagerweij.com/2012/01/26/technical-excellence-why-you-should-tdd/>on TDD,...
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johnny_ladoce
Jan 27, 2012 5:16 pm
Thanks for your feedback Kennos, I'll keep that in mind for future posts. Anyhow, these posts are not really supposed to teach the fundamentals, or to"convert"...
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Ken
kenno_mac
Jan 26, 2012 10:07 pm
Nice series... however you could pull in a few more examples from more authoritative works?? The acid test is whether I could forward your post to an...
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Ken
kenno_mac
Jan 26, 2012 9:24 pm
That explanation sounds v cool to me! I think a critical goal should be that, when a functional test fails on a build, then this should mean something to the...
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jacek_ratzinger
Jan 25, 2012 4:14 pm
Mocks or Stubs can help with combining outside-in and depth-first. - sketch first - executable sketch - mocked implementation - more tests - in depth...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jan 25, 2012 1:21 am
... I do not mind using mocks, but I generally prefer depth-first to breadth-first because I expect depth-first to complete something that actually works...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jan 25, 2012 1:10 am
The acceptance test could be on the same object as my first unit test, but an acceptance test is much broader than a unit test, usually involving what happens...
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mpnalvin
Jan 24, 2012 10:59 pm
... Hmm... your language here is striking. I've always thought of the initial design as the good guy, and code as the disreputable cousin who uses any excuse...
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jacek_ratzinger
Jan 24, 2012 9:34 pm
One section of the blog on PDD (http://jacekratzinger.blogspot.com/2012/01/purpose-driven-development-pdd.html) is called "The Executable Documentation". User...
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Kelly
ladyrockmetal
Jan 24, 2012 9:33 pm
Hello all, I am working in a monograph in my specialization course, which the subject is Test Driven Development. I've written a research about this theme and...
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mpnalvin
Jan 24, 2012 9:33 pm
... Jeffrey, that's a great suggestion. I'll definitely check those out. Mark...
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mpnalvin
Jan 24, 2012 9:33 pm
Steven, The method you outlined is almost exactly what I had in mind (in my case, derived from the "Growing Object-Oriented Software" book). GOOS calls it...
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mpnalvin
Jan 24, 2012 9:01 pm
Dale, Thanks so much for this reply. Honestly, I think it has been more helpful to me in terms of developing the right mindset than any of the books I've read....
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Jan 24, 2012 8:48 pm
Hi, Mark, ... Right there, write a test that requires the first inkling of that design idea. ... You can't help but think about the design. That's a good...
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Jeffrey
mallio
Jan 24, 2012 5:13 pm
I've really enjoyed the Let's Play TDD video sessions by James Shore. It might look daunting, since there are so many posted, but each one is 15 mins or less...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jan 24, 2012 9:04 am
Mark, It occurs to me that maybe you are trying to do TDD bottom-up (like most, if not all, of the articles and books do), but do design top-down like I do. ...
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Charlie Poole
cpoole98370
Jan 24, 2012 7:29 am
Hi, Writing tests is not an alternative to following your design ideas, it's a different way to follow those ideas. Don't try to turn your brain off. Rather,...
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Dale Emery
dhemery...
Jan 24, 2012 7:27 am
Hi Mark, ... You haven't got the mindset right... yet. ... Don't beat yourself up about it. You're allowed to think about design. And when you're done with...
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mpnalvin
Jan 24, 2012 6:40 am
Hi all! I have several years of experience in traditional development, but I'm trying to adapt to a TDD approach. The trouble is, I can't get the mindset...
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jacek_ratzinger
Jan 20, 2012 8:57 pm
One of the sections of PDD is called "The Executable Documentation". User topics - the elements of the user documentation - are instrumented and directly used...
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jacek_ratzinger
Jan 20, 2012 8:57 pm
Yes, I agree with you that it makes a difference how we look at specifications. Therefore, the first step of PDD is to develop the next piece of the user...
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Joe
jhlittle1
Jan 18, 2012 1:47 am
Teaching an Intermediate Certified Scrum Product Owner Course in Orlando on Feb. 21-23. This course is a great next step for a Certified ScrumMaster or the...
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jacek_ratzinger
Jan 16, 2012 8:15 pm
As described in Purpose Driven Development (http://jacekratzinger.blogspot.com/2012/01/purpose-driven-development-pdd.html) user topics are elaborated within...
