I’m going to have a good time in the next couple of months – I have several interesting speaking opportunities right around the corner:In less than two days I’ll be traveling to Germany to attend AgileTD. This is my first time at that AgileTD but from what I hear it’s an amazing conference. This year … Continue reading Upcoming speaking engagements – AgileTD, DevMotion & NDC London
It’s been a while since my last local appearance – too long in my opinion. Luckily I have a chance to remedy that:August 19th: I’ll be speaking at the IL .NET Developers user group (IDNDUG) about Navigating the TDD alphabet soup. I’ll be speaking about TDD/BDD/ATDD, their origins, how (and when) to use them and … Continue reading Upcoming speaking engagements – User groups, meetups & AgileTD
When unit testing in C++ I tend to use Google Test/Mock, it’s simple to use, multi-platform solution. In the last few days I have been having second thoughts about it due to a new framework called Catch.What is (the) Catch?“Catch” stand for C++ Automated Test Cases in Headers. It’s an open source project (GitHubbed). What … Continue reading Catch – multi-paradigm automated test framework for C++
Now that I’m back from NDC London I have a chance to plan my upcoming speaking engagements – and it’s going to be a few busy months.I’ve already blogged about my plans for the next few months but since then I found out that I’ll be coming back to London (always a pleasure) in March … Continue reading New Speaking engagement – DevWeek 2015
Disclaimer: this is not a TDD vs. BDD post – now that we’ve got that out of the way let’s discuss the thing I hate most about BDD…I’ve recently started using BDD (again). My tests are still “unit tests” – they do not call a database nor any other external dependency, and since even when … Continue reading What I hate about BDD
In the BDD (Behavior Drive Development) there are two groups of frameworks. The first group contains tools such as SpecFlow and nBehave to name a few all of which uses (at least) two files – one contains the scenarios/behaviors in plain English (more or less) and the other the code that makes it all happen.I … Continue reading Unit level BDD using SubSpec
I was listening to another good Hanselminuets podcast - Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan. As always it was a good an informative show. Towards the end of the show one of the interviewees (I think it was Amir) explained why BDD is much better than TDD… by djclear904 … Continue reading TDD vs. BDD or why can’t we all just get along?
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