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Comments on Corey Haines’ String Calculator TDD Kata Implementation

Corey Haines recreated my TDD Kata on his KataCasts blog. ( click here to learn more about TDD katas ) Since Corey is an experienced TDD practitioner I was honored that he’d given it a go, and was eager to see the video. Later, corey asks for my remarks on it, which i will gladly put here. In general...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-23-2009
Test driven design – Willed vs. Forced Designs

I’m writing this as a typemock employee, but also as someone who has sat on the other side of the line for several good years, and can argue in both ways. The following, I feel, is true no matter where I work. There are two ways people use tests to drive design, as far as I see. one is great,...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-12-2009
Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help

in continuation to my challenge (which no one had bothered answering, lazy web!) One of the things that inhibits unit tests in organizations is the idea of fragile tests. a Fragile test is a test that can easily break when the production code changes. That’s not to say that tests should never break as...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-09-2009
Art of Unit Testing on Hanselminutes

Scott Hanselman took me in for a 30 minute interview about Unit Testing Dos and Don’ts in his podcast, Hanselminutes. It was a pleasure, and I hope to be there once more about other topics. Maybe in TechEd Berlin.. Have a listen

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-07-2009
NDC 2009 – Done!

NDC 2009 was a blast! Thanks for all the great conversations :) Here’s what it looked like when you look up at a full room in NDC

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-22-2009
Questions every team and dev lead should ask themselves

here are the questions that teams and team leads should be asking themselves on a daily\weekly basis. There are more, but these are the basics, to me. It’s part of the summary for the talk “Beautiful teams I am giving at SEConf and NDC. we do a lot of this stuff over at work , and it’s proving itself...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-16-2009
Art Of Unit Testing available at Amazon

My book, The Art Of Unit Testing , is now in stock at Amazon. If you’ve read the book, I’d love it if you put in a review on that page.

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-06-2009
Using Explicit Arrange,Act,Assert scopes in tests – thoughts?

What are your thoughts on this style of writing? Specifically the “Explicit” way of defining arrange, act and assert scopes. also, given the name of the test, where should the call to “OnApplyTemplate” be (if you’ve never seen the code)? which version makes more sense to you? A, or B? version...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-02-2009
Testing that an event was raised

This question keeps coming up: “How can I test that an event was actually raised from my class under test?” actually, there is an easy way to check if an event was raised. you subscribe to the event in your test, and in the event handler you set a boolean flag to true. then you just assert on the flag...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-23-2009
Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book)– Get it now, it’s done.

The time has actually come. After 2.5 years, and two kids, my book is finally done and is available in full form as an EBook. at the end of the month it will be in print form. Now would be the time to get it, when it is still at a “pre-order” pricing. Get the preorder price either at Manning (along with...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-20-2009

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