Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Fri, 14 Nov 2003

In praise of Hiroshi Nakamura, and the Ruby community

I'm writing an article about doing exploratory testing of APIs using Ruby. The article shows how to test the Google web services API, so I'm using Hiroshi Nakamura's SOAP4R package. I found and reported a bug in that package. 23 minutes later, he replied with a patch. A reviewer of the article had a question about proxy servers. Less than 20 minutes later, he had a response. Other emails to Hiroshi have led to similarly pleasant results.

Hiroshi is emblematic of the best spirt of the Ruby community. One thing I noticed right off the bat when learning Ruby is how helpful the Ruby community is. I hope we can keep it up.

(I'm feeling really regretful that I didn't make it to the RubyConf this year.)

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