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Test-Driven-Development
Submitted by jamie on Wed, 23/07/2008 - 08:38.Everyone knows I am a big fan of TDD. But, the truth is that I am really in love with beautifully designed software***. To this end, TDD is useful. It forces you to think about interactions between objects and the different dependencies. The fact that you get an automated suite of tests is a simple, but valuable, bonus. The process of TDD is a formalisation of the way many good programmers think. I used to sketch my assertions on a bit of paper (non-lined) and then check the programs output. When I was 20 I started messing around with test programs, as a way of automation.
Tool Blind
Submitted by David Gilbert on Wed, 23/07/2008 - 15:12.This morning, I am sitting here writing a blog about tool blindness.I am writing this blog, because I have the time to do it.I have the time to do it, because my test environment is down.My test environment is down because someone is installing and configuring and troubleshooting a new testing tool. They have been since around the middle of the day yesterday, and an email just
Ever-Decreasing Cycles - Draft Article
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Wed, 23/07/2008 - 15:59.You can find a draft of an article I'm writing about the trend towards getting feedback about software quality ever faster and more cheaply. The end vision is one regular blog visitors might be familiar with - that of the continuous background tsting and code quality analysis I've spoken about in the past.
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2008 Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice
Submitted by Brian Marick on Wed, 23/07/2008 - 16:17.We are soliciting nominations for the 2008 Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice.Each year, the Agile Alliance awards the Gordon Pask Award on the last day of the Agile 200X conference. It recognizes two people whose recent contributions to Agile Practice make them, in the opinion of the Award Committee, people others in [...]
Software Testing, A Funny Business
Submitted by Evil Tester - Alan Richardson's blog on Wed, 23/07/2008 - 22:30. Steve Martin's Autobiography starts with the following phrase:"I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success... enjoyment when performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. After the [...]
New tool added - RhinoUnit
Submitted by Opensourcetesting.org - latest news on Thu, 24/07/2008 - 00:00.This is a Javascript testing framework for use within ANT. It has all the usual assertions, as well as new ones to ensure that functions are called, and checks to stop your code polluting the global namespace (don't forget your vars!) as well as integrated JSLint to keep your code look consistent (and pick up on some potential problems)