Does the light in the fridge stay on when you close the door? It’s one of life’s greatest mysteries. I’ve almost hired a detective to check that, but then I remembered my engineering background, and the mystery was solved. But what about zombies, or the sasquatch, or untestable code? Well, Read more…
A few weeks back I was working with a client on TDD. We were working on the first part of a new application, to figure out the design. We wrote a test first, of course, for an end-to-end, happy-path scenario. But here’s a surprise. Instead of building the main modules Read more…
Webinar time, and this time it’s Clean Tests (or rather Dirty Tests) time. This session is for the test lover who can’t look at their teammate’s tests and must refactor them. That, or he just found out he wrote that monstrosity, and must hide the evidence. Check out the code Read more…
Conferences are cool, even when they take place in the online ether. So I was happy to bring an updated version of the “Quality Dashboard” session to Odyssey 2021. It’s 55 minutes long, so grab some coffee, and don’t let any baby get in your face until you do. What Read more…
Yesss. It’s here. At least the Hebrew version, I have a feeling that we’ll do an English one soon. What is it? It’s a 48 mins of what you don’t read in introduction to TDD books or articles. (Except for Everyday Unit Testing, my book, but you probably knew that). Read more…
The idea of “untestable code” comes up often when you start implementing any test automation methods, especially unit testing. Suddenly, you discover that code is not testable. It resists. Actually, it’s not “untestable”. But it’s damn hard to test, without changing. Here’s an example. Your code does a calculation and Read more…
I’ve been asked if is it possible to write unit tests to someone else’s code, after it was written. Not your code, and not as a pair. Up to a few months ago, I’d say no. But, here I am after doing it myself, on code I don’t know, and Read more…
Another month, another webinar recording! At 52 mins, this time it’s about the mindset of testing. Especially when you want to introduce unit testing (or any other process), you need to understand where people are coming from. How developers think, what can help them consider change, and what objections they Read more…
This webinar recording (1 hour long) is the “Make it public and other things developers don’t like to hear”. It’s about how code impacts testability, and how the role of the tester includes making an impact in that regard. Testability is very important in our effort to create a comprehensible Read more…
And here’s the JUnit webinar recording. Live is better, but a repeat view is not too shabby as Data and Lore discuss above. 52 minutes of absolute testing deliciousness. It goes through what makes special about JUnit 5, and more important than features, how they can help you write better, Read more…