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Archive for April, 2008

Great xUnit Test Suites: the Pre-TDD Conversation

A Burning Issue We interrupt the current blog thread (the “E” word series) to bring you a burning issue. Well, burning for me, anyway. I have been working with some other Pillar programmers on systems for helping not-yet-agile programmers learn some best practices. And while many of us in the industry are accustomed to coaching, [...]

The “E” Word; Part Two

The TicTacPente Eclipse Project In my first post on this topic, I set the stage. I had a need for two implementations of the same problem domain: one ugly, one not. As promised, by the way, you can anonymously download the entire codebase discussed in this series of blog posts from a google code project [...]

Teaching Programmers about the “E” Word

A Tale of Two Codebases So, pardon the long interlude, readers. I have been up to my eyeballs in alligators. But all my parts are still connected, and I return from the software jungles with something I find interesting, and I hope you do too. I have been working for months on a “toy” codebase [...]