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Spaces in identifier names in C#

While I’m a fan of descriptive member names for testcase classes and test methods, there wasn’t a great way to create readable text. Text in code editors is almost universally monospace, which reads very well for languages with lots of syntax. ...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2009 10:49 PM by bogardj

Filed under: C#, BDD

Encapsulation and thinking behaviorally

I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about setters and encapsulation , but for whatever reason, it never really “clicked” for me. I thought I was developing behaviorally, as I’ve been using the Context/Specification style of BDD specifications for...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 7:58 AM by bogardj

Filed under: BDD, Behavior-Driven Development

Arrange Act Assert and BDD specifications

With Rhino Mocks 3.5 just around the corner, I've started using it to create much more readable tests. One of the things that always bothered me with Expect.Call, constraints and the like was that it mixed in the Arrange with Assert. For those that...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 8:18 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Tools, BDD, Behavior-Driven Development

Separation of Concerns by example: Part 4

In the last part, we finally broke out the caching and data access concerns from our original class. The series so far includes: Separation of Concerns - how not to do it Separation of Concerns by example: Part 1 - Refactoring away from static class Separation...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 7:57 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Refactoring, BDD, Behavior-Driven Development

PabloTV: Eliminating static dependencies screencast

Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named "Helper". I've certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies...

Published Tue, May 05 2008 7:24 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Legacy Code, Refactoring, BDD, TDD, PabloTV

Eliminating obscure tests

One of the purported benefits of unit tests and TDD in general is unit tests doubling as living documentation. Unit tests are documentation in the form of executable client code demonstrating small units of behavior. The idea is that if you wanted to...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2008 6:47 PM by bogardj

Filed under: BDD, Behavior-Driven Development, TDD

Converting tests to specs is a bad idea

When I first started experimenting with BDD , all the talk about the shift in language led me to believe that to "do BDD" all I needed to do was to change my "Asserts" to some "Shoulds". At the root, it looked like all I...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2008 4:40 PM by bogardj

Filed under: BDD, Behavior-Driven Development

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