Author Archives: Liz

Reading the latest posts on the Yahoo XP group, it seems that good TDDers understand that the word “test” is developer-speak for something a little more complex. “Test”, in Test Driven Development, encapsulates the idea of specification, design, verification of … Continue reading →

If you’ve ever been wondering what the difference is between Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Design, Dave Astels has written a fantastic paper which explains it all, linked here. It mentions JBehave, which is still in version 0.0.1 … … Continue reading →

Looks like LiveJournal are messing with RSS (thanks for the help, Ade). So my feeds are a bit messed at the moment. Normal service will be resumed shortly.

The Yahoo XP group has been having a fairly heated debate about the term “refactoring”. When you refactor, do you change the behaviour of your code, or not? I decided to go have a look on dictionary.com, my ever-ready friend, … Continue reading →

Ben on the XP thread wrote something which made me smile. I hadn’t seen it before – a Google search attributes it to various people but I suspect it originates with Mark Twain (Update: Apparently Blaise Pascal said it first, … Continue reading →

(Just so I remember) Which of your projects made you cry at night, and why? I suspect that our abilities to define exactly why a project made us cry have been shaped by those projects which didn’t. Lack of communcation … Continue reading →

One of my poems, “A Stitch in Time”, is now online at The Fortean Bureau.

After some struggling, we managed to get our build file working this morning. “Owned! Devs 1, Build File 0”, I thought. It’s an odd expression, “Owned”, commonly used by gamers and people who read too much PvP. It’s used to … Continue reading →

Last week, we had a lunchtime get-together to talk about refactoring the functional tests. This week, we had another conversation about “things that were really good” about the project. A little gem came up between them: CardSuites. A CardSuite is … Continue reading →