Tom White understands literate programming
Written on 12 May 2006
Tom White shows that he understands the descriptive aspects of what we were trying to do with jMock
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When you read his examples the “eq” seems very hacky and bends the literate approach out of shape a bit.
Why not add an extra method named something resembling “islike” as a synonym for the horrible eq, then you can say:
assertThat(a, islike(”3″));
or
assertThat( theEndResult, islike( theDesiredExample ));
More literate, hmm?
Tom White’s Blog: Literate Programming with jMock
Tom White’s Blog: Literate Programming with jMock: ” Posted by tomwhite on May 11, 2006 at 11:10 AM We’ve been using jMock at our company for some time now. We’ve found it great for test driven development and isolating our unit tests from the rest of the