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Wednesday, January 01, 2003
 

Happy New Year!

Everyone else has said it, so I don't see why I can't. :)

This has been one of my more maniacal new years. Went to a very cool party in Battersea (apart from the fact we actually missed midnight - DOH!), got home about 1 am, finished packing, got to bed at 2, then got up at 6 with an absolutely stinking hangover to get to Heathrow to catch a plane to Chicago (where I am as I type this. )

So I've currently been up 18 hours on 4 hours sleep, and I need to stay up at least another 4 to avoid jet lag. Its lucky I'm still young. :)


11:51:13 PM    

Test Driven Development - Kent Beck

Just read Kent's new book on a plane trip to Chicago. I've been dabbling with TDD for a little over 6 months now, but the book was definitely worth reading.

As Joe said to me "it's written like a pairing session" which I agree with, and the theme that crops up most strongly to me is that the red/green cycle is very short for Kent - he explains why and I'm interested to try his style.

One of the other things I liked was the number of different little techniques that come out, for example the "Log string" testing pattern which is a simple way of testing the order of methods being called.

Stuff that isn't in the book is a detailed look at specific extensions (eg there's only a page and a half on Mock Objects), but that's kind of in the spirit of the book being fairly lightweight.

I definitely recommend it for new and existing Test-first/TDD'ers


11:44:20 PM    


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