Earlier I spoke about specifications at the story level, now it’s time to explore them at the unit level. Story level examples explore how the feature in it’s entirety works, demanding code to be produced to make the example work… at the unit level, we apply the same concept, we provide examples that prove the [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Express Your Dependencies
December 29th, 2009
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Recently I gave a presentation on Test Doubles at a client site and while fielding questions at the end, one person asked how they could use Mockito (which I used to demonstrate Test Doubles) when autowiring fields with Spring. The problem he had was he was autowiring the fields, which were private, and which had [...]
links for 2009-12-29
December 29th, 2009
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MoodMapr Harness the power of Niko Niko charts for retrospectives through twitter. (tags: retrospectives twitter niko)
links for 2009-12-28
December 28th, 2009
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Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (tags: architecture)
links for 2009-12-26
December 26th, 2009
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Apache Camel: Integration Nirvana | Architects Zone
Code Doesn’t Exist Unless It’s Checked In
December 22nd, 2009
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Being back in a solo development environment after many years in an agile environment with required pair programming can be quite a change. I’ve been quite used to pair programming and influencing my partner to check in on each passing example. In a solo environment this can be a little trickier, and even I have [...]
On BDD: From Acceptance Tests to Story Level Specifications
December 22nd, 2009
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Behavior Driven Development is best described as taking an “Outside-In” approach, meaning you define your feature from the outset and describe business value, and work your way in a small piece at a time. That being the case, I thought it’d be best to cover one stage of evolution that I’ve had over the years… [...]
On BDD: An Introductory Post
December 21st, 2009
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Okay, let me get something straight… for the past several MONTHS I’ve been trying as much as possible to distill my thoughts on Behavior Driven Development and each time I tried I wound up with a train wreck of a blog post that I would promptly delete. While commuting to work today I finally realized [...]
links for 2009-12-03
December 3rd, 2009
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15 Useful Google Chrome Plugins (tags: chrome plugins google)
