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Program Specification Through the Mechanism of Automated Tests

Adam Craven wrote 2 weeks ago: My previous findings regarding the testing of public methods versus private methods opened the door … more →

Tags: Visual Studio, Behaviour Driven Development, Testing, BDD, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Verification, Program specification

Showdown: Testing Private Methods Versus Public Methods1 comment

Adam Craven wrote 2 weeks ago: The concept of testing private methods has been debated by many people, and up until now I have been … more →

Tags: Testing

Book Review: Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Chapter 6

Dahlia Bock wrote 1 month ago:           Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers I’ … more →

Tags: Testing, Books

Coding tip to self2 comments

Dahlia Bock wrote 3 months ago: Always leave your codebase in a better (or same, if you really can’t make it better) condition … more →

Tags: Ramble

Lessons In MSBuild – Applying the Single Responsibility Principle to MSBuild Projects

Adam Craven wrote 4 months ago: As an experienced developer, I promote the use of good practices in object oriented designs. I was m … more →

Tags: msbuild, tfs build, SOLID Principles

Mocking: Mockito vs EasyMock example

Dahlia Bock wrote 4 months ago: Ever since I was introduced to Mockito about a year ago, I’ve been a big fan. I wrote a couple … more →

Tags: Testing, mocking framework, Mocking ;

SOLID Principles

Adam Craven wrote 5 months ago: In a previous posting on BDD,  I quickly referenced ‘Uncle Bob’ Robert C. Martin’s website wher … more →

Tags: Behaviour Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Programming, BDD, SOLID Principles

Towards Behaviour Driven Programming – Part 2

Adam Craven wrote 5 months ago: Today a small team of three had a post-iteration meeting, and for the first time within the company … more →

Tags: Behaviour Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Programming, BDD, Test Driven Development, TDD

Towards Behaviour Driven Programming

Adam Craven wrote 5 months ago: Yes, I am a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) man – and in this post I am limiting my discussion to … more →

Tags: Behaviour Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Programming, BDD, Test Driven Development, TDD

PHP Basics series - Coding4 comments

mcloide wrote 5 months ago: This is the first article that I’m writing about learning PHP. For a couple of months now, and … more →

Tags: development, php, learn, Coding standards, coding, Best Practices, php basics series, PHP Basics

Code Reviews Are Important!

Adam Craven wrote 6 months ago: A few months ago I was reviewing some Visual Basic .NET code from a production application and I cam … more →

Tags: Visual Basic .Net, Code Reviewing

97 Things an Architect Should Know Review

zkashan wrote 7 months ago: “97 Things an Architect Should Know” is an excellent book which reflects on experiences … more →

Tags: Learning

Code design

npaez wrote 7 months ago: Last Thursday I offer a class at university titled “Code Design”. Maybe the name was not … more →

Tags: Academia, Ingenieria de Software, oop

An interesting blog post about Mockito (and other mocking frameworks)3 comments

Dahlia Bock wrote 8 months ago: I’ve recently joined the mockito google group and this link was posted recently. http://rrees. … more →

Tags: Thoughtworks, Testing, mockito, mocking framework

What about the small picture?1 comment

Dahlia Bock wrote 8 months ago: I saw this IBM ad at a bus stop today with the tag line, “Let’s build smarter traffic … more →

Writing Better Conditional Statements

Mark Basmayor wrote 9 months ago: 1. Use 1 == foo instead of foo == 1.  Srsly. At a glance, you might think that the following stateme … more →

Tags: Java, conditional statements, programming techniques, Programming tips

What is the difference between an MVC and MVP

zkashan wrote 1 year ago: M – Model, V – View, C – Controller, P – Presenter Many if not most of the p … more →

Tags: Comparative, Agile, mvc, MVP

Knowing When to Log Errors

zkashan wrote 1 year ago: In a recent chat iwth Daniel Bodart, I realised that after programming Java over the past few years, … more →

Tags: coding practice, errors, Java, logging

Variables and Names2 comments

zkashan wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been working with C# for the past few months, and never encountered a “var”. … more →

Tags: Programming Methods, variables


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