Some people feel uneasy when they test-drive code, so they favor the traditional workflow where testing is an after-development activity. Other people, on the contrary, believe that adding automated tests after development is more challenging, so the...
Most of us are familiar with the problems exhibited by the systems that contain design smells (understanding the term “smell” as defined in Martin Fowler’s book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code). Some of these problems are: The sys...
Recently, I wrote a post about my talk at the 1st International Conference on Test-Driven Development (TDD). The post covers the part where I discuss about the notion of robust tests and how unit size impacts robustness. In that post, I leave one que...
Last July 10th, we could witness the first International Conference on Test-Driven Development (TDD). It was a historic event. The lineup included big names such as GeePaw Hill and one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto: James Greenin...
When we hear the term “Clean Code”, we usually think about the well-known book that was written by Robert C. Martin (also known as Uncle Bob): “Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship” (2009) Ever since this book was published, the t...
