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Well, now I’m missing a conference in one more continent and I’m done. Although I don’t think we’ll see an Antarctica Java or C# conf anytime soon. Anyway, the “TDD with Legacy Code” was in Java, so if you want to know how to fix bugs with TDD, or want Read more…

SPRING IS HERE! Well, not really. Well, according to my window it looks like it, but the calendar says otherwise. But the recording of the Tips for Spring Testing webinar is here. In fact, it’s just below. Check it out! Oh, and if you’re interested in some training on these Read more…

Let me count the ways. Alone. In the dark, or with the light on. Does it return the expected status? Does it do what we expect it to do? You know, the absolute simple stuff. With different inputs. Different paths, different parameters, different bodies. Changing parameters is good. We can Read more…

A few weeks back, I was on the “Testing Show” podcast, discussing testability with Matt Heusser and Michael Larsen. Michael and I have a shared fondness for discussing testability issues. How could you not? Testability is not just a giant matter all by itself. It has code, architecture, and design Read more…

How to Build a REST API with TDD in C# – A recording of presentation and NetCoreConf

That webinar was fun, and it left me with a couple of ideas on how to do more of these. But this one’s pretty slick too. I show how to take TDD principles, and apply them to regular, ugly code. Examples are in Java, but the principles apply in every Read more…

You know how these things work. You go to a restaurant, complain about the dirty fork and get kamikaze attacked by the chef. Or, you don’t keep the code clean, and the user dies. Same-same. Well maybe that’s not everyone’s experience. But code hygiene is important. Check out the video. Read more…

It’s been a while, but here’s the “Make It Public” recording about testability, and how developers and testers working together can make a product testable. Including a few things to improve testability, like, I don’t know, making stuff public. Here’s the recording:

I gave a course recently on unit testing in Angular, and we were looking at some code the developers wrote, and we wanted to test. It looked something like this: someApiCallAsync(p1, p2, …) .then(response => { if (response.ok){ …. } else { ….. }; }) Basically we’re looking at an Read more…

Testing UI is hard. Or is it? It really depends on what we’re talking about when we’re saying “UI testing”. This question came up recently in the “Unit Wars” webinar. And I think that it requires a deeper answer. I remember writing Windows apps in C++, calling CreateWindow APIs, keeping Read more…