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Working with Racer

Note: Cross posted from The Typemock Insider Blog. Permalink I’m the first one who gets to break new stuff, and so, here are my impressions from Racer: It’s the greatest invention ever! What’s that? You say I’m a bit biased because I work at Typemock? You might have a point. So how’s my experience so

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James Carr on TDD Anti Patterns

A long catalog of anti patterns. While interesting and lots of “I’ve done this!” moments, remember: When doing unit tests, you will make mistakes. Ok, when you program, you’ll make mistakes. You can’t say now: I got to watch out for these, you won’t write unit tests at all. Don’t let lists of patterns or

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When to TDD an Interface

Note: Cross posted from The Typemock Insider Blog. Permalink Brett Schuchert, on the Object Mentor blog, writes about TDDing an interface.  One of the main questions raised is when to decide you need an interface rather than a concrete class. The more I think about it, it comes back to your knowledge of the system.

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When Should I Write A Test?

Note: Cross posted from The Typemock Insider Blog. Permalink Sam Newman asks three questions that can help you decide whether to write tests for a feature. How easy is the feature to test? What is the likelihood of the feature breaking? What is the impact of the break? Let’s start with the 2nd one. That’s

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