This viewlet shows the implementation of Kent Beck’s example from Contributing to Eclipse, in a clear, animated presentation. Author: Carlos E. Perez (blog) Published: February 2003 Format: Flash presentation See also: Yahoo Groups: contributing to Eclipse Eclipse (Universal Tool Platform)link ...
Besides an introduction to refactoring, this handbook provides a catalog of dozens of tips for improving code. The best thing about Refactoring is its remarkably clear presentation, along with excellent nuts-and-bolts advice, from object expert Martin Fowler. The author is also an authority on software patterns and UML, and this experience helps make this a [...] ...
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When faced with a complex programming challenge, rare is the developer who can readily see how to begin or produce its solution. More often than not, such projects generate a ...
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Very roughly speaking, you usually have two choices when it comes to methodology. You can either use a "heavy" methodology with lots of design documents and procedures, or you can ...
In XP, automatic testing of the produced software takes a central role in the development process. For unit tests, there are a multitude of freely available testing frameworks for many ...
Refactoring is about saying, "Let’s restructure this system in order to make it easier to change it." The corollary is that it’s pointless to refactor a system you will never ...
An important part of any software development process is getting reliable builds of the software. Despite it’s importance, we are often surprised when this isn’t done. Here we discuss the ...
The abysmal quality of software has led to Extreme Programming (XP), a discipline for developing software that requires test-driven design, continuous testing and acceptance of constant change. As one application ...
Extreme Programmers write tests before they write the corresponding production code. In "test-first programming," you start with a small test, then write just enough code to implement it, and continue ...
The key to working effectively with legacy code is getting it to a place where it is possible to know that you are making changes one at a time. When ...
Mock objects are a powerful and flexible mechanism for substituting an imposter as a parameter to the class under test. In many cases, however, the collaborations with the class under ...
Acceptance tests must go beyond functionality to determine whether the packages meet goals such as specified performance levels. Automating end-to-end testing from the customer point of view can seem as ...
Artima SuiteRunner, a free, open source unit and conformance testing toolkit for Java, was released in late January. Find out why the authors felt the need to create Artima SuiteRunner ...
The great thing about software patterns is that they convey many useful design ideas. It follows, therefore, that if you learn a bunch of these patterns, you’ll be a pretty ...
Abbot (A Better Bot) is a Java GUI testing framework. The framework may be invoked directly in hand-coded Java tests, or more simply using XML-based scripts. Both methods are designed ...
JUnit is a regression testing framework written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck. It is used by the developer who implements unit tests in Java. Most famous of XUnits, JUnit ...
4th International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering – XP2003 Week of May 26, 2003, Genova, Italy www.xp2003.org ...
A language is a tool. Understanding how to use a tool properly goes far beyond reading the manual. It requires first-hand viewing of how the tool is properly wielded, followed ...