Author Archives: Liz

I’ve started going through my Hellbound project and replacing some of the mocks I’ve been using in JBehave with real code. This means, of course, that the functional tests which relied on the mocks for verification don’t do anything any … Continue reading →

My current pair Dan and I got into a discussion about blame cultures. He told me about a meeting he was once in, in which the boss said, “We don’t want to start a blame culture.” “Yes,” said another employee, … Continue reading →

When I started here, I was secretly concerned. How could I ever hope to match my new colleagues’ motivation, let alone their technical skill? How could I find the time to mess with projects outside of work, and the passion … Continue reading →

Oh, Lotus Notes. I was rude to you In December. You ate my email. Isn’t that revenge enough For those words? Don’t hang like that. Don’t leave me with no choice but To kill you. I pity you. You’ve never … Continue reading →

I’m increasingly coming to believe that there’s no such thing as a bad idea. They tend to generate good ideas, or cause changes which help to generate better ideas in future. The only danger is that occasionally, bad ideas get … Continue reading →

Behaviour-driven-design advocate Manish and I have just had a chat over IM. He’s pointed out to me that checking things after the event is just testing, whereas anticipating things before the event is design. Design is good. Bugfixing is a … Continue reading →

JBehave’s Story Runner runs through scenarios as follows: Given a context When an event happens Then this outcome occurs. So you’d think it would visit these in the order “context, event, outcome”. Unfortunately, the mocks all have to be set … Continue reading →

Today I wrote my first TDD test (with help from my pair partner, obviously). It was fun watching it fail, then fixing it so it failed the way we expected, then fixing the code to make it pass. The code … Continue reading →

Today I wrote my first proper Wiki page. I did this because someone gave me a set of instructions in the form of some scribbled notes, and I realised that I’d need to write them down to make head or … Continue reading →

The first program other than HelloWorld which I ever wrote in Java was a very simple version of Tetris. My OO design was nonexistent, but it enabled me to explore the language and trawl through the APIs. Goodness knows where … Continue reading →