Everyone knows from reading The Mythical Man Month that as you add more people to a software development project you will see diminishing marginal...
1 replies - 5780 views - 12/14/11 by Jim Bird in Articles
So I’ve been meaning to make a fix in one of my projects for a while,
and I haven’t touched the code in over a year, so of course I have to go
back and...
0 replies - 3370 views - 12/14/11 by Andy Gibson in Articles
I was listening to another good Hanselminuets podcast - Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan.
As always it was a good and...
1 replies - 7866 views - 12/12/11 by Dror Helper in Articles
I think that I’m coming to the end of my series of blogs on testing
techniques, and it feels like it’s been along haul. One of the things...
0 replies - 2565 views - 12/09/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
I’ve had lots of reaction to my recent blog on ‘What you Should Test’,
some agreeing with me for varying reasons and others thinking that...
1 replies - 3631 views - 12/08/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
In my last blog, I talked about dealing with the badly behaved untestable1 SitePropertiesManager
class and how to create stubs by extracting an...
0 replies - 2447 views - 12/04/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
I encountered a tricky problem today, I was writing a test for which the assertion was onto some function called or not. I couldn’t mock that function as it...
1 replies - 3887 views - 12/02/11 by Aurelien Broszn... in Articles
So, this next one, for me, points out something that I felt was a difficulty in being a tester with development experience. See part one here.I
don't...
5 replies - 7175 views - 12/01/11 by Dawn Cannan in Articles
Any one who reads this blog will probably have realised that at present
I’m working on a project that contains a whole bunch of legacy code
that’s...
2 replies - 2244 views - 12/01/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
There is a huge number of books about TDD. Those books usually
concentrate on using test for units of work. Units of work are
understood in many different...
9 replies - 14075 views - 11/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
My last blog was the fourth in a series of blogs on approaches to
testing code, demonstrating how to create a unit test that isolates the
object under test...
3 replies - 4256 views - 11/28/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
My last blog was the third in a series of blogs on approaches to testing
code and discussing what you do and don’t have to test. It’s based
around my...
5 replies - 3377 views - 11/26/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
I’ve updated my Spring Mockito Demo app that I demonstrate when teaching with a PowerMock of a final class with a static method.
Demo Features
Maven...
0 replies - 3413 views - 11/25/11 by Gordon Dickens in Articles
Having [automated] unit/integration/functional/… tests is great but
it is too easy for them to become a hindrance, making any change to the
system...
2 replies - 3139 views - 11/24/11 by Jakub Holý in Articles
I was in the office yesterday, talking about testing to one of my
colleagues who was a little unconvinced by writing unit tests. One of
the reasons that he...
14 replies - 4403 views - 11/21/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
