Advanced ASP.NET MVC
Learn how to extend the ASP.NET MVC framework with dependency injection, view engines, action filters, and more. We’ll see how to apply Test Driven Development and write unit tests with mock objects.
Tag: TDD
Eliminating Static Dependencies
Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named “Helper”. I’ve certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies in the past, with classes like “LoggingHelper”, “SessionHelper”, “DBHelper” and so on. The problem …
TDD: It’s About More Than Just “Testing”
Recently, in the Rails community, there has been an upsurge of interest in testing. For instance, in the past year alone, we’ve seen the introduction of a bevy of new testing-related gems (i.e. context, cucumber, factory_girl, remarkable, webrat, etc.). These are all good things. And yet do we still see …
More Test Driven Development With Javascript: JsTestDriver
Demonstration of JsTestDrive technology and how you can use it to TDD your JavaScript code. [youtube V4wYrR6t5gE] Good blog posting evaluating JsTestDrive
When I finally understood Behaviour-Driven Development
This is a lightning talk about why I, as an experienced TDD:er, at first was convinced that BDD was completely useless and more or less harmful, which faulty assumptions I had and why I’ve completely changed my mind. http://smidig2007.confreaks.com/d1t2p05.html
Test-Driving GUIs (with RubyCocoa)
Test-driven design is probably more popular in the Ruby community than in other language communities. Nevertheless, test-driven design of graphical user interfaces is still seen as something of a black art. In this talk, I’ll demonstrate how to test-drive a Mac GUI, using either RubyCocoa or MacRuby. I’ll concentrate on …