A few weeks ago, James Shore has published a novel idea in the area of automated testing. The “Nullable” testing patterns offer a way to incrementally write tests on legacy code and to avoid mocks and design changes for testability, by allowing any class, to implement in addition to the production code a “nullable” implementation […]
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This article has first appeared in Today Software Magazine. Why Spock? When we first started working on our project at work, we searched for an easy-to-use tool that would help us write readable and concise tests. We chose Spock, because in combination with Groovy it provided exactly what we needed: readable BDD-style tests that we
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The 5th edition of I T.A.K.E Unconference, the only technology agnostic event in Central and Eastern Europe, is taking place in Bucharest, Romania, 11-12 May. With a line-up of more than 30 international speakers, 6 keynotes, 6 parallel tracks, a technical Open Space and many opportunities for coding, the event brings together top-notch software crafters who lead the change in
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This article was first published in Today Software Magazine, no 12. Below it’s the full version. The authors are: Alexandru Bolboaca and Adrian Bolboaca. The Problem Imagine the following situation: a team has developed for 6 months a great product that immediately sells. Users show their passion for the product by asking new features. If the team does not deliver the new features
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It was 2009 when Maria decided to organize the first ever agile conference in Romania, Open Agile Romania. To facilitate the marketing, it was planned as a track of an open source event, eLiberatica, better known at that time. Finding interesting speakers willing to come to Romania, at that time was much harder than expected.
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At the time of this post, I have taught unit testing for 5+ years, to a few hundreds of developers, both in classroom and in their own environment, on their own code, be it Java, C#, C++, PHP, Python, Javascript, Objective-C or ActionScript. No matter the technology or the environment, the problems they encountered were
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