Matt Wynne taking it one tea at a time
How many unresolved bugs are there in your system right now? Yes, yes, smarty-pants: the ones you already know about. Ten? Fifty? Two hundred? More?! I find it frighteningly common to see teams let a huge backlog of bugs build up. They set up a trusted system like Jira or Bugzilla and then use it …
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One thing that isn’t documented very well for RSpec is how to test your routes. I came across an old post on the rspec mailing list which described a great way to do this: describe TasksController “routing” do it “should route POST request for /tasks to the ‘create’ action” do params_from(:post, “/tasks”).should == {:controller =>; …
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If you or one of your team-mates uses ubuntu for their desktop, you might want to check out jccray by Ketan Padegaonkar. It may also be available with the main cruisecontrol source though it doesn’t appear to be there at the moment.
On my last project, some joker took the (much maligned) paper file marked ‘Use Cases’ and gave it the more accurate title ‘Useless Cases’. We hated that file. It contained so much misinformation, so many gaps. Take heed though: Alistair Cockburn still thinks use cases are relevant. We certainly learned on that project that while …
For many moons I used to ponder on the challenge of how to get Visual Studio and TFS to stop developers from checking in code when the tests didn’t pass.
This is the first in what I hope to be a series of little posts about the little flashes of ‘culture shock’ that I experience as I start to move from C# to Ruby as my day-to-day programming language. Here we’re going to look at the subtle yet significant difference in how method access modifiers …
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One of the things that’s always irritated my about rails’ ActiveRecord framework is the way that the domain model lives in the database.Don’t get me wrong: it’s very clever, and a great showcase for ruby’s metaprogramming features, which will blow average C# / Java mind the mind when they first see it. In rails, you …
The WatiN (Web Application Testing In .Net) framework, a port of the popular watir framework in ruby, has recently announced support for Firefox. This should make it a compelling alternative to selenium, especially as it looks to be a good deal quicker. Sweet. Now if only I had a way to serve up an ASP.NET …
I’m building an Adobe Air application at the moment, which basically means loads of javascript development. We’re building it pure test-first, and have kicked off using jsUnit to get us started with something simple, flipping to the browser when we make a change and hitting the ‘run’ button in the jsTest testrunner HTML page. I’m …
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If, like me, you’ve been confused by the two different, identically-named, unit testing frameworks for javascript, here’s a very useful explanation of their strengths, weaknesses, and purposes.