Behavior-Driven Development
So two posts ago I documented my first foray into nodeJS. The result was a simple HTTP server that served one line of static HTML. All I really accomplished was to prove to myself that nodeJS was installed correctly, I could copy/paste six lines of code, and that the copied code would actually create a …
I have been playing with some new toys in the JavaScript space. It started over a year ago with my interest in using BDD to design and code JavaScript for the browser. I started with JSpec and made the transition to Jasmine. Along the way I puttered around in JQuery and even a bit in …
Lately, the teams I’ve been coaching have been looking to get Unit Test coverage around their Javascript code. This has resulted in the following approach: Extract the Javascript code from a JSP page and save it in its own .js file Add test coverage using Jasmine Remove said Javascript from the JSP, replacing the embedded code …
Recently I was honored to have the opportunity to work toward being approved to teach Ron Jeffries’ and Chet Hendrickson’s Agile Developer Skills course. I had my first opportunity to co-teach the class last week. It was a great class and I very much enjoyed working along side Chet and Cheezy, two software craftsmen I respect …
Much to my surprise, blogging is hard. It’s not the research and it’s not the writing: my problem is consistency. You see, I’d rather not waste your time nor mine if I really don’t have anything interesting to say. And then, sometimes, I simply find it hard to find a good anchor point out of …
Lately I’ve been squeezing in work on TDD examples, learning Erlang, brushing up on Ruby and researching BDD whenever I can find a few minutes in my schedule. It just so happened that today I had a sizable block of time to focus on one thing. That one thing ended up being continued exploration into …
In spite of all that TDD provides, there is one glaring omission: TDD is not particularly interested in business value. I’m sure that strong proponents of TDD would argue that TDD is valuable; and it is – as an engineering practice. I’m sure that those same proponents would say that TDD’s implicit improvement in design …