El libro sobre Test Driven Development será libre

De vuelta del Agile Open Spain en Madrid (evento sobre el cual escribiré en otro post), he decidido que el libro sobre Test Driven Development en el que llevo más de un año trabajando será publicado con licencia libre. Ha sido una decisión muy difícil pero el evento y las ... Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Nice slides: TDD, design principles and the agile manifesto

Just wanted to share some slides regarding TDD (in English) and the agile manifesto (in Spanish). The first comes from the TDD yahoo group. The second from JM Beas and his talk at Tenerife few months ago. TDD Hands-on - Gishu Pillai Los Principios Agiles Update: Also wanted to ... Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Conclusiones del curso de TDD

Ayer terminé de impartir mi primer curso de Test Driven Development de 10 horas. Anteriormente habia dado otro de unas 5 horas de duración que me dejó muy buen sabor y tenía ganas de intentarlo con otro más largo. Gracias a J.L. Roda, Pedro González y la Agencia Canaria de ... Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off

When to use mock() and proxy()

This is about Python Mocker features. In order to pass in a mock as a parameter to the SUT (subject under test) you might think of creating the mock using either, "mock()" method or "proxy(SomeClass)" method. They both yield mocks but they work differently. mock() should be used for stubs and ... Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Lista de TDD en castellano!

Se acaba de crear una nueva lista sobre Test Driven Development en castellano: http://groups.google.com/group/tddev-sp Muchas gracias a Jose Ramón Diaz por la iniciativa. Esperemos que los recursos en castellano sigan aumentando. Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Run just a group of tests

Sometimes we (my team in our current project) have a single TestCase (class) holding tests for several SUTs (classes). That is not right as every class should have its own TestCase (It has to do with the fact that instantiating the tests to run them is a pain with unitttest), ... Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off

When tests gets too complex to write (and read)

I've realized that test code difficult to write and read is sometimes a code smell. It could mean the test code is wrong or the SUT (subject under test) itself is wrong. I've got myself thinking of how to test a method X of a class C which is calling ... Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off

TDD Efficacy and enemies

Part of this information has been got from the testdrivendevelopment group. The main enemy of TDD is.... the lazy developer. I'd rather say, the lazy programmer. It's good to read that it is just not only me who thinks that laziness is the most dangerous enemy for TDD. If you have ... Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Pídele a los Reyes un curso de TDD

... y déjate ya de PlayStation que tienes la marca de la X en el pulgar :-) Me complace anunciar que en Enero celebramos en Tenerife una nueva edición de nuestro famoso curso de Test Driven Development. Esta vez con la aparición estelar de Gregorio Mena que nos hablará sobre Historias ... Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Curso de TDD en Sevilla

Durante los pasados 26 y 27 de Noviembre he tenido la suerte de impartir un curso de Test Driven Development al equipo de Telvent Outsourcing en sus oficinas de Sevilla. Ha sido gracias a Antonio Pizarro y a Álvaro Lobato que contactaron conmigo y me facilitaron todos los medios para ... Filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off