by Carlos Ble | Jan 27, 2014 | Agile, Clean code, Software Development
With good names for packages, classes, methods, variables,… code should be self-explanatory. Long method names are not a problem if they really make code read better and don’t reveal too much implementation details. Names are more powerful than most...
by Carlos Ble | Nov 28, 2013 | Retrospectivas, Software Development
I am one of the lecturers/mentors of the first IronHack edition, a training program for people who want to become professional developers. My part takes only three days and it’s been this week. Three full-day hands-on sessions on JavaScript, TDD and...
by Carlos Ble | Nov 24, 2013 | JavaScript, Test Driven Development, Testing
Many frameworks use the word “mock” for what in reality are “spies”. But that’s OK, the work “mock” in English covers actually all the possible test double types… However according to G. Meszaros, a mock object is a...
by Carlos Ble | Nov 14, 2013 | Testing
In general I prefer to wrap up system functions so that I can inject test doubles and test drive my designs easily. In general is not a good idea to mock objects you don’t own. But this time I was doing some research, preparing one edition of my Online Training...
by Carlos Ble | Oct 30, 2013 | Agile, JavaScript, Retrospectivas, Test Driven Development
Wow, AgileTestingDays 2013 it’s being awesome! I gave my talk today, a practical “live coding” session. Last week I created a real-time application to communicate with the audience so that when I am speaking they can tell me if they are understanding...
by Carlos Ble | Oct 21, 2013 | Test Driven Development, Testing
No long ago in the Spanish TDD mailing list, some friends said they were struggling with test doubles. A typical question is how to use them to design collaboration a la test-first. Test doubles are something people find hard to understand in my TDD training courses....
