Monthly Archives: July 2009

We don’t design using mocks

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Liz

I’ve found myself repeating this a few times lately, so maybe it will help some people out there. In BDD, we don’t design using mocks. We design by thinking about context, responsibility, collaboration and delegation, then we use mocks to … Continue reading →

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Tyburn 1.1 released

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Liz

Tyburn, the little GUI harness for helping you Swing more easily, has had a few changes: Slow mode now added, so you can use it to show your scenarios being run (great for BDD presentations or working out what’s actually … Continue reading →

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Pixie Driven Development

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Liz

While I’m coding, I usually have a bunch of very helpful pixies hanging around my desk. (They’re Dan’s pixies really, since he thought of them first; I’m just borrowing them.) The pixies are bored, and just waiting for a job … Continue reading →

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