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• 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... Posted Jul 24 2008, 08:18 AM by bogardj with | with 16 comment(s) 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... Posted Jul 10 2008, 07:57 AM by bogardj with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Refactoring, BDD, Behavior-Driven Development

• 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... Posted Feb 16 2008, 06:47 PM by bogardj with | with 2 comment(s) 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... Posted Jan 10 2008, 04:40 PM by bogardj with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: BDD, Behavior-Driven Development