Archive for the 'TDD' Category

Do it: use ridiculously long test method names

At work I’m probably known by a couple people for writing riciculously long test name, so this post by Patrick Lightbody made me smile.

Unfortunately, Dan’s examples of test methods were rather weak - often the agiledox crowd uses really simplistic examples. So I thought I’d give some examples of some of my methods [...]

Test Driven Development: Fake it till you make it.

xkcd.com: Random Number

Need more info? Can Test-Driven Development and Programming By Intention play together?

Testivus - Testing for the rest of us.

I am a believer in Testivus.

Developers need to take more responsibility for testing their code. But the majority of developers are not willing, nor ready, nor able to jump on the bandwagon of the more extreme and demanding developer testing movements such as Test Driven Development. Testivus is a proposed developer testing movement [...]

RSpec for JRuby

RSpec, the Behavior Driven Development(BDD) library for Ruby, has been solidifying on JRuby recently. A post to the mailing list last week pointed out that it’s now passing nearly 100% of its specification (the RSpec term for a test suite). http://www.infoq.com/news/2006/11/RSpecOnJRuby

I mentioned rSpec in Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour [...]

Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development

A friend over at Pivotal sent me a link to this Google Video: Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development.

This quote sets the tone for this awesome talk:

Everyone’s happy doing TDD… and everyone is getting the maximum benefit right? Bullshit.

Thanks go out to parkert for sending me this link.

Update: [...]