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How did I get started in software development?

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 Vic-20 (yeah, that's right baby, RESPECT). My Dad got us a book or two with BASIC...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-27-2008
Hosting an entire ASP.NET MVC request for testing purposes

We've been playing around a lot with the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 at Dovetail and trying to find various ways to test at various levels. One of the levels we were toying with was doing an end-to-end test including URL routing, controller action, and view result rendering. Unfortunately it's still...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-24-2008
Creating a Culture of Quality

I've been testing my code for a long time. I finally got on the TDD / BDD bandwagon a year ago and haven't looked back. But as much as I believe that testing is important, and I would never write professional code without an extensive suite of unit tests, I still find myself writing code at home...

Posted to John Teague's Blog (Weblog) by jcteague on 06-06-2008
Introducing Quality-first Notions Into an Existing Team

In a recent discussion on the altdotnet mailing list , a question was raised: How to you start introducing TDD into an existing team? Bill Barry had some good thoughts on how the process might work , I suggest you check out his post. It got me thinking about things and three questions came to mind: If...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 05-27-2008
Ping-pong Pairing Session Screencast with Ben Scheirman

Well, it's two-fer Tuesday here at Los Techies, I guess! By pure coincidence, Ben Scheirman wrapped up the post-production of a screencast we did a few weeks ago. Ben Scheirman just recently posted on his blog about it. Ben did a LOT of work trying to get the video and audio in sync and did a heroic...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 05-14-2008
PabloTV: Eliminating static dependencies screencast

Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named "Helper". I've certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies in the past, with classes like "LoggingHelper"...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 05-06-2008
Should you TDD when flying solo?

A couple of weeks ago a question came up on the ALT.NET message board : Does TDD make sense when you're the only developer in your company? To me, this is akin to the following questions: Is quality important? Is maintainability important? Is design important? Remember, TDD is all about design. Unit...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 04-22-2008
Auto-mocking container pitfalls?

I'm taking a closer look at the auto-mocking container idea, specifically as we're including it in the upcoming release of NBehave. I'm a little wary of prolonged use, but wanted to get some feedback (it's also on the ALT.NET message board). Some pitfalls I thought of offhand were: Can...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 04-21-2008
Review - xUnit Test Patterns

I consider one of the measures of quality of a book to be the number of personal assumptions challenged by its material. To that point, Gerard Meszaros' xUnit Test Patterns did not disappoint. Perhaps the biggest assumption was a dogmatic view of what a unit test should look like without compromise...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 03-16-2008
Clearing up the Mock confusion

There's some bad blood concerning Mocks, and a lot of it rightfully so. Because of popular mocking frameworks, the name "Mock" has become interchangeable for "Test Double". In Texas, we ask for a Kleenex, not a tissue, and a Coke instead of a soft drink. The brand name has defined...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 03-13-2008

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