Category Archives: tdd

Ten tips to maximize the return on your TDD investment

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Paul Cowen presented an interesting personal observation of using TDD on the ALT.NET mailing list, under the title “TDD + effort != return“.  The implication being that doing TDD requires extra work during development, extra work in training, extra work … Continue reading →

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Interfaces and isolation

Posted on September 20, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Roy Osherove has suggested a new name for mocks, fakes, stubs or any test double: Isolation.  True, the myriad of test double names can muddy the language, and Meszaros’ suggested name of “test double” still confuses people that don’t get … Continue reading →

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TDD design trade-offs and junk food

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Tony Rasa recently talked about design trade-offs when doing TDD: When “doing TDD,” we consciously make design trade-offs to favor testability. … we end up with a lot of single-implementation interfaces because of testability concerns and from weaknesses with our … Continue reading →

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Announcing: Pablo’s Days of TDD in Austin, TX

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chad Myers

Los Techies(.com), its president, Pablo El Burro, and our sponsors are pleased to announce "Pablo’s Days of TDD" (PDoTDD).  PDoTDD is a day-and-a-half event of workshops, discussion, practice, and training around automated unit testing, specifically the practice of Test-Driven Development … Continue reading →

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Quality and code coverage

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

It’s an age-old question: should our team’s goal be 100% coverage?  A valid question, but one I’ve never much cared about in practice.  The idea is that the team, all practicing TDD, should dutifully measure and add unit tests until … Continue reading →

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Design and Testability

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Chad Myers

There was a rather healthy public discussion and debate going on via Twitter today between Roy Osherove, Ayende Rahien, Colin Jack, me, and several others. Michael Feathers even dropped in at one point which was cool.  This all started when … Continue reading →

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Droppin’ Pennies on context specs…

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Mo Khan

First off I want to make it clear that I’m not a guru on the topic, but I do find it interesting. The topic of course is Context Based Specifications. I’ve seen an emergence in interest in writing context based … Continue reading →

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Parsing The Payload

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Mo Khan

So this week we got to start working a brand spanking new MVC project. So far we’re leveraging Castle Windsor, NHibernate, Fluent Nhibernate, and kind of running Linq to NHibernate. It’s amazing how quickly you can get a project up … Continue reading →

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Encapsulating Test Data and Expectations

Posted on August 13, 2008 by John Teague

I love it when I find new ways to improve my testing ability.  In this case, it’s not really new, just new to me.  I’m referring The Object Mother or Test Data Builder patterns used to encapsulate objects you need … Continue reading →

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How did I get started in software development?

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Chad Myers

Jason Meridth tagged me with this meme, so I’ll play along if anyone cares. How old were you when you started programming? I remember being 6 or 7 years old helping my brother open the box for our new Commodore … Continue reading →

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