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Category Archives: Fakes
Where we are with acceptance testing and our BDD journey today
It’s a long post. Sorry about that. Get yourself a coffee and a comfy chair. I have spoken in the past about our path to Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) through Story Test Driven Development (STDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). … Continue reading
Also posted in ATDD, BDD, Behavior Specification, STDD, TDD, xUnit
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Learning and craftsmanship
Roy has a pretty thoughful post on the barrier to entry for most developers with Test-Driven Development. I hope I am not doing Roy a disservice by summarizing it as: we have made TDD unapproachable to many by making it … Continue reading
Also posted in Agile, Mocks, Object-Orientation, Stubs, TDD, XP, xUnit
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TDD and Hard To Test Areas, Part 2
It’s been a while. I have been heads down on a new project (more about that some other time), and have not got around to posting. Without further ado here is the follow up post to TDD and Hart To … Continue reading
Also posted in Agile, Mocks, Object-Orientation, Stubs, TDD, xUnit
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Classicist vs. Mockist Test-Driven Development
One thing that came up in a couple of sessions of Altnetconf UK was the old saw of classicist vs. mockist approaches to TDD. Martin Fowler has a great, and updated, article on the distinction between the two approaches here. … Continue reading
Also posted in altnetconf, AltNetUK, Featured, Mocks, Stubs, TDD
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Mocks and the Dangers of Overspecified Software
I’ll be back on LINQ architecture after the holidays, but in the meantime, I wanted to share some of the bad, some of the places where we have had bitter experiences. When NMock first appeared we embraced the behaviour verification … Continue reading
Also posted in Mocks, Stubs, TDD, xUnit
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