Here are my slides which Cory Smith and I have presented this morning at OOPSLA 2009.
The ability to write hard to test code is innate in every developer form the moment we have built our first “Hello World” application. It is so automatic that we do not even know when we are doing it. On [...]
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How To Write Hard To Test Code & What To Look For When Reviewing Other Peoples Hard To Test Code
October 28th, 2009 · 5 Comments
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Automatic Dependency Injection In The Land Of Dynamic Languages
October 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Automatic Dependency Injection Frameworks (such as GUICE, PicoContainer, and Spring) are very popular in Java, where they depend heavily on static typing, interfaces, reflection and annotations. But what about languages such as ActionScript, JavaScript, Python and Ruby, where duck-typing and lack of run-time-type-information at first glance make these frameworks impossible? Can a simple Dependency Injection [...]
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Lowering the price of Web-Apps
October 18th, 2009 · 5 Comments
The old saying goes: Ideas are a dime a dozen, it’s the execution that counts.
So you are working on a project and all of a sudden you realize that it would be great to have a web-application which keeps track of something. It is exactly what would hit the spot, but than you think about [...]
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Design for Testability Talk
October 7th, 2009 · 12 Comments
Here is may latest presentation on design for testability…
Slides: Design For Testablity
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Sweet Spot for <angular/>
October 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Building web-applications is hard! Even the simplest hello world application will take you hours to set up and you have to know a lot about how many different pieces of technologies work together. Here is a quick inventory from the browser to the back end of what a typical web-application developer needs to know about: [...]
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Cost of Testing
October 1st, 2009 · 31 Comments
A lot of people have been asking me lately, what is the cost of testing, so I decided, that I will try to measure it, to dispel the myth that testing takes twice as long.
For the last two weeks I have been keeping track of the amount of time I spent writing tests versus the [...]
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Hello World, <angular/> is here
September 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments
If you see this text, than you are not reading this blog on our site, and the page will be static. To get the full effect please read the original blog on http://blog.getangular.com/2009/09/26/hello-world-angular-is-here/
Hi I am <angular/>! What is your name?
(Please enter your name into the text box).
Hello {{person.name}}! Please to meet you!
We would [...]
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Checked exceptions I love you, but you have to go
September 16th, 2009 · 20 Comments
Once upon a time Java created an experiment called checked-exceptions, you know you have to declare exceptions or catch them. Since that time no other language (I know of) has decided to copy this idea, but somehow the Java developers are in love with checked exceptions. Here, I am going to “try” to convince you [...]
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It is not about writing tests, its about writing stories
September 2nd, 2009 · 10 Comments
I would like to make an analogy between building software and building a car. I know it is imperfect one, as one is about design and the other is about manufacturing, but indulge me, the lessons are very similar.
A piece of software is like a car. Lets say you would like to test a car, [...]
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Sharing My Slide Deck from RTAC
August 21st, 2009 · 7 Comments
Just Wanted to share the latest slide deck with you, which I was presenting at RIM Test Automation Conference. I know that without the sound to go with it there is limited value, but I hope you get at least something out of it.
Psychology of Testing
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