Comments on: Test Driven Development: First Impressions

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:17:20 +0000

Glad you’re infected!

You should use fixture-less tests to determine if the features you’re using in later fixtures work, then assume they work.

TEST(CanLoadFromFile)
{
…
}

class TextFileLoadedFixture
{
TextFileLoadedFixture()
{
// Do you loading and assume it all works, no need to test results
}
};

TEST_F(TextFileLoadedFixture, CanReadByteFromFile)
{
byte result = file.ReadByte(dest);
CHECK_EQUAL(‘a’, result);
}

aegisknight — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:48:56 +0000

Listening to me blabber and correct myself is “speech practice”? I’m confused.

egometry — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:19:33 +0000

Eh. I just need speech practice and figured that this may be a good venue for such.

aegisknight — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:13:32 +0000

Ah. I’m not hip to this whole audioblogging thing. I’d rather read than listen to people talk.

egometry — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:07:14 +0000

I was considering doing it myself, actually. Vanity loves company.

aegisknight — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:29:38 +0000

Hm, maybe. Not sure. Why do you want to hear it?

thespeedbump — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:41:20 +0000

Told you so. :D

The advantages of TDD become exascerbated even further in interpreted languages because you can skip the build phase.

egometry — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:32:02 +0000

Can you not record your voice whilst speaking to the computer?

aegisknight — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:30:40 +0000

what speeches?

egometry — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:20:59 +0000

You should mp3 the speeches behind audioblogging entries!

…I’ll read the rest of this all again when my brain is more worky.