We've discussed source control on this list a few times recently, so this may be of interest to many of us here. Kyle Cordes has been looking at the various...
Kyle is a great presenter and you should definitely check out his presentation on distributed source control! If you're free Thursday night, you might also...
Diaspar Software and Thoughtworks is proud to present another installment of the XP Day North America series: XP Day Manhattan taking place on October 13,...
I was so hoping this would be Manhattan, KS. For some reason though, I suspected it wouldn't be. Going to the website confirmed my fears. :( Midwesterner, ...
We have two coders in our group, one junior and one senior who would like to learn TDD and Refactoring. Until a certain company who's name I will not mention...
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... I would love to do a public course soon. Is there any interest? ... It's not anything truly published, but I did a blog posting a few years ago solving a...
Jody, Going through some of this now with my team. This is in a .Net context. They really appreciated doing a basic example that showed: setting up tests in a...
... I just happened to have started a similar series on my blog starting at http://www.cornetdesign.com/2007/10/tdd-of-winform-app-part-0-introduction.html. --...
Thanks to all of you who have posted. This is a gold mine of stuff, and should carry me through. I gave the initial presentation today, and it went well. It...
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It occurs to me that a few beers might suffice as payment, by the way. Any body interested? I'm buying (a little bit. :) ... -- Jody Breshears Christopher...
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Hi, all, Yes, I have some actual content to discuss!!! I posted a blog entry today, and Craig read it and gave me some interesting feedback on what I wrote. ...
Well, the second teaching session went well. NOLS (The National Outdoor Leadership School) has a saying: "See one, do one, teach one." meaning you don't...
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http://www.agileprogrammer.com/oneagilecoder/ seems to be down at the moment. Something I do when I don't care about order is to compare sets: Build a Set...
Hi, Brian, ... I think that Craig is mostly right. Part of what you want your test case to do is to communicate how you intend the class under test to be ...
... First, I agree with Gary. Call the thing Books. Second, you did call the test PresortedBookList, so by default you are assuming a presorted list. But I...
Craig, Sorry for the long delay. Working full time, taking two college courses and building a house. Something's gotta give and lately it's been my yahoo ...
... To add to Bryan's comments, I found VBUnit3 (http://www.vbunit.org/) to be very useful. It costs $79, which you will recoup in a day. When you are adding...
Thanks for the reply. So basically, you just write your own stand-alone test functions, and call them all from the master function? That's what I've been doing...
... To be fair, my tools (Ruby and RSpec) do a really good job of pushing me to write better tests. It took me a few tries to realize that I should really be...
... OK, you all win. I have definitely learned something new about writing tests like these. The very next test I wrote added the sorting logic, and in that...
... I think we ALL win. ;) ... Stacking the deck to put things in the wrong order doesn't seem as icky as doing it to put things in the right order. The...
I have to agree with Craig here about RSpec and BDD in general. Never thought I'd go for behavior driven over test driven, but RSpec really changed my...
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