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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Legacy code testing techniques: subclass and override non-virtual members
This post was originally published here. One of the core techniques in Michael Feathers’ Working Effectively With Legacy Code is the “Subclass and Override Method” technique. Basically, in the context of a test, we can subclass a dependency and override behavior … Continue reading
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Template Delegate Pattern
This post was originally published here. I’ve had to use this pattern a few times, most recently in Behave#. It’s similar to the Template Method pattern, but doesn’t resort to using subclassing for using a template method. Instead, a delegate … Continue reading
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Agile references for PMs
This post was originally published here. By “PM”, I’m referring to Project Managers. Adopting Agile can be a scary proposition for those entrenched in waterfall processes. I have a lot of sympathy for PMs whose dev team decides to switch … Continue reading
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Authoring stories with BDD using Behave# and NSpec
This post was originally published here. A question came up on the Behave# CodePlex site, asking about the intent of Behave# and where it fits with NSpec. BDD is all about using TDD to create specifications, and NSpec bridges the gap with a specification-friendly … Continue reading
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Continuous Integration resources for Team Build
This post was originally published here. Team Build 2005 did not support Continuous Integration out of the box. Lots of add-ins and tools have been released since Team Build released to do CI. Here’s an admittedly incomplete list for doing … Continue reading
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Pending scenarios in Behave#
This post was originally published here. When first authoring stories and scenarios in Behave#, the implementation to support the scenario probably doesn’t exist yet. Part 4 of Nelson Montalvo’s series of posts on Behave# illustrates this quite nicely. The problem is that you … Continue reading
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Some pairing tips
This post was originally published here. One of the stranger things I noticed about pair programming was that I felt I was more efficient working with a pair than working on task alone. Mostly I felt it was because not only … Continue reading
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Importance of collocation
This post was originally published here. Jeremy Miller mentioned that Fred George is blogging now, and that he’d be worth reading. Wow, Jeremy wasn’t lying. One of the first posts really resonated with me, on collocation. I’ve now had the … Continue reading
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Addressing some Behave# concerns
This post was originally published here. So Joe and I have received some initial feedback for Behave#. Joe’s already given a great intro into how to use Behave# and addressed Roy’s specific questions. I thought I’d address some of the … Continue reading
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Some Behave# news
This post was originally published here. Joe already announced this, but it doesn’t hurt to get the word out some more, right? We’re going to combine our efforts into Behave#, a behavior-driven design framework. For more information about our framework, … Continue reading
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About Me
I'm a technical architect with Headspring in Austin, TX. I focus on DDD, distributed systems, and any other acronym-centric design/architecture/methodology. I created AutoMapper and am a co-author of the ASP.NET MVC in Action books.