http://www.m3p.co.uk/blog/2009/03/08/mock-roles-not-objects-live-and-in-person/ Working software daily Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:22:43 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.m3p.co.uk/blog/2009/03/08/mock-roles-not-objects-live-and-in-person/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Mock Objects « Liz Douglass Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:31:59 +0000 http://www.m3p.co.uk/blog/2009/03/08/mock-roles-not-objects-live-and-in-person/#comment-690 [...] “Specify as little as possible in a test”…”One of the risks with TDD is that tests become ‘brittle’, that is they fail when a programmer makes unrelated changes to application code.” This is on of the most common criticisms of TDD that I have heard from other developers. The paper goes onto say that the cause is that “…(the tests) have been over-specfied to check features that are an artefact of implementation, not an expression of some requirement in the object.” I’ve written tests that fall into in this category and I think it can be quite challenging to avoid doing so. Steve Freeman, one of the authors of the paper, blogged about this situation happening in a Coding Dojo earlier this year. [...] [...] “Specify as little as possible in a test”…”One of the risks with TDD is that tests become ‘brittle’, that is they fail when a programmer makes unrelated changes to application code.” This is on of the most common criticisms of TDD that I have heard from other developers. The paper goes onto say that the cause is that “…(the tests) have been over-specfied to check features that are an artefact of implementation, not an expression of some requirement in the object.” I’ve written tests that fall into in this category and I think it can be quite challenging to avoid doing so. Steve Freeman, one of the authors of the paper, blogged about this situation happening in a Coding Dojo earlier this year. [...]

]]> http://www.m3p.co.uk/blog/2009/03/08/mock-roles-not-objects-live-and-in-person/comment-page-1/#comment-472 Mock Roles not Objects Live On Tour at me.andering Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:49:33 +0000 http://www.m3p.co.uk/blog/2009/03/08/mock-roles-not-objects-live-and-in-person/#comment-472 [...] Steve Freeman did a great writeup of the session Marc Evers and I hosted at the Software Craftsmanship Conference: Mock Roles not Objects, live and in person. [...] [...] Steve Freeman did a great writeup of the session Marc Evers and I hosted at the Software Craftsmanship Conference: Mock Roles not Objects, live and in person. [...]

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