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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Thu, 27 May 2004

The power to cloud minds

Earlier, I wrote about how tests should contain as little verbiage as possible. Often, the step-by-step nature of ActionFixture, StepFixture, or DoFixture tests obscures the point of the test.

In a conversation about that, Ward Cunningham observed:

I had a client once that produced business facts in nice column fixture compatible tables until the application gui came up and all reasoning about the application turned into sequential steps.

Jim Shore replied:

Interesting... that's what happened with me, too. Before we had a GUI, lots of fantastic domain-specific column and row fixtures with explanatory graphs. After the GUI, nothing but sequential steps.

Something to watch out for, I suppose, even if I can't explain it.

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Groundhog day

Today, I became the 100,000th person to set his iPod alarm clock to play "I Got You, Babe".

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