by Carlos Ble | Jul 23, 2015 | Clean code, Test Driven Development, Testing
Among other qualities good tests should be easy to read, quick to understand. When the test requires complex data structures to be sent to the SUT or to be part of a stubbed answer, it takes longer to read. Moreover those structures use to evolve as the production...
by Carlos Ble | May 31, 2015 | Test Driven Development
As I am getting older my memory doesn’t work as it did some years ago. If want to remember and internalize the important stuff from all the things I study, I just have to blog about them for two reasons: being able to come back to my blog to reread record it...
by Carlos Ble | Apr 19, 2015 | Agile, BDD
I had the pleasure of speaking at CukeUp! this year (2015), the fifth edition of Cucumber’s conference which is more about BDD than Cucumber itself, although there are always updates on the state of the tool (this year Matt released version 2.0 during his talk!)...
by Carlos Ble | Feb 10, 2015 | Test Driven Development
.Net 4.5 came out with a really handy built-in asynchronous mechanism, async and await. However the method signature of a void method is a bit strange: public async Task SomeAction(){…} It is possible to use async void but it’s not recommended unless we...
by Carlos Ble | Jan 21, 2015 | Agile, aida, BDD
Este post habla de dos de los valores de XP: Simplicidad y Feedback. Fundamentales y habitualmente olvidados. Cuando escribimos software o dibujamos una interfaz de usuario, estamos dando forma a una solución concreta de las muchas que puede tener un problema. Al...
by Carlos Ble | Dec 2, 2014 | aida, BDD, Software Development
This is the first of a series of posts on how our team is practicing BDD. These are mostly notes to myself and our team so other readers may not find enough context to understand the points. After a few weeks we have decided...