I never was one for social networking sites… I tried Orkut when it first came out and ran away from it fast when I got spammed non-stop by Brazillians and Indians speaking in their native tounges… and I still wouldn’t be caught dead on a site like myspace. However, when I recently read about the [...]
Archive for July, 2007
JUnit 4.4
July 24th, 2007
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InfoQ reports that JUnit 4.4 has been released. I have not had a chance to download it and try it out, but it looks like it has added a very good and useful feature, assertThat. This is a very welcome addition. For a long time I have actually been using RMock in my TestCases solely [...]
Punch Out
July 22nd, 2007
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Found this on YouTube today. Funny stuff… brings back memories.
Accidental DSL
July 18th, 2007
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Something kind of funny happened on a project that I am currently wrapping up at work. We had been doing acceptance testing with fitnesse, and written many custom fixtures that were specific to the domain problem (DoFixture is great for this). Further, there were quite a few RowEntryFixtures, SubsetFixtures, and RowFixtures that provided quick and [...]
Dr.Strangescript or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IE
July 16th, 2007
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Sigh…. after a lengthy hiatius, I’m back on the road again to writing complex javascript and dealing with the little cross browser quirks. Naturally, a lot of my problems have been from that little troublemaker Internet Explorer. It’s like IE was designed to thwart my every javascript based move! Luckily, a little googling helped me [...]
Theory P and Theory D
July 15th, 2007
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Tim Bray Reginald Braithwaite has written a VERY GOOD blog post on the two dominant modes of software development in the industry, with much to grin about and much to cry about when you recognize the different traits described of both Theory D adherents and Theory P adherents. Some choice favorites: “Theory D managers often [...]
TDD Anti-Pattern Translations
July 8th, 2007
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Wow… it seems my blog post on TDD Anti-Patterns has been translated! Today I found a coment that a Japanese translation is now availble, and I have also received an email that a French translation is in the works. Cool!
Overiding Singletons For Testing
July 7th, 2007
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While thumbing through the Xunit Test Patterns book tonight, I came across a rather interesting pattern named “Dependency Lookup.” The premise was simple, and I had actually used it on occasion… you delegate object retrieval/creation to a broker rather than access it directly (i.e. factory), and then provide a mechanism to set the object you [...]
A Quick Thought On UI Testing
July 1st, 2007
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Writing a test that checks for static text on a page or dialog that will never change based on domain logic or system behavior and then writing the text to make it pass… That’s not test driven development. It’s just a complete waste of time and absolutely stupid. By the kind of contrived logic such [...]
