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Do not test private methods
You should only be testing public methods. Private methods are an implementation detail of the object and are subject to heavy change, etc. Any class, including test fixtures, that care about private methods on another object exhibit the “Inappropriate...
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Fri, Nov 11 2008 4:49 PM
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Announcing: Pablo’s Days of TDD in Austin, TX
Los Techies(.com) , its president, Pablo El Burro, and our sponsors are pleased to announce "Pablo's Days of TDD" (PDoTDD). PDoTDD is a day-and-a-half event of workshops, discussion, practice, and training around automated unit testing...
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Mon, Sep 09 2008 8:58 PM
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Design and Testability
There was a rather healthy public discussion and debate going on via Twitter today between Roy Osherove, Ayende Rahien, Colin Jack, me, and several others. Michael Feathers even dropped in at one point which was cool. This all started when Roy twittered...
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Sat, Aug 08 2008 9:27 PM
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How did I get started in software development?
Jason Meridth tagged me with this meme, so I'll play along if anyone cares. How old were you when you started programming? I remember being 6 or 7 years old helping my brother open the box for our new Commodore Vic-20 (yeah, that's right baby...
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Fri, Jun 06 2008 8:04 PM
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Hosting an entire ASP.NET MVC request for testing purposes
We've been playing around a lot with the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 at Dovetail and trying to find various ways to test at various levels. One of the levels we were toying with was doing an end-to-end test including URL routing, controller action, and...
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Tue, Jun 06 2008 10:11 PM
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Introducing Quality-first Notions Into an Existing Team
In a recent discussion on the altdotnet mailing list , a question was raised: How to you start introducing TDD into an existing team? Bill Barry had some good thoughts on how the process might work , I suggest you check out his post. It got me thinking...
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Tue, May 05 2008 1:16 PM
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Ping-pong Pairing Session Screencast with Ben Scheirman
Well, it's two-fer Tuesday here at Los Techies, I guess! By pure coincidence, Ben Scheirman wrapped up the post-production of a screencast we did a few weeks ago. Ben Scheirman just recently posted on his blog about it. Ben did a LOT of work trying...
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Wed, May 05 2008 12:12 AM
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I find your lack of tests disturbing.
Found this here: {|one, step, back|} and I had to cry chuckle.
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Sun, Feb 02 2008 8:57 AM
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Austin TDD CodingDojo Homework
A few folks have been working on some of the stories and code we were talking about at the Austin TDD CodingDojo earlier this month. Joe Ocampo , Ray Houston , and I have been discussing it and Joe even did a cool spike/prototype to get things moving...
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Tue, Feb 02 2008 9:42 PM
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The first 2 hours of TDD are the most painful
Quick Background I admit, I've had a lot of failures with TDD. Mostly they were solo projects and I didn't have the discipline and self control enough to stick with it. I ALWAYS regretted not sticking with it. However poorly I was doing it, it...
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Tue, Feb 02 2008 10:08 PM
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Austin TDD CodingDojo Complete
On Saturday morning, February 9th, 2008, on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field , 20+ geeks descended to explore what TDD was all about. Ok, it wasn't frozen, nor tundra, nor Lambeau Field, but it was Feb. 9th and we were all geeks and it was good...
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Sun, Feb 02 2008 10:46 PM
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Austin TDD CodingDojo Signup
The details of the Austin TDD CodingDojo event have been finalized and the sign up form is now online. Signup (opens in new window): http://austintddcodingdojo.wufoo.com/forms/austin-tdd-codingdojo-signup/ Details: Who You! We hope to have a good mix...
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Thu, Jan 01 2008 2:07 PM
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