Archive for the 'Agile' Category

Evil Tester and The Agile Team

What happens when Evil Tester and Panicky Tester see the new Agile team in action? Will they flee? Will they join in? Find out in our exciting “Evil Tester” comic book adventure.  

Eclipse plugins to ease Test Driven Development Mistakes

Previously I described how I made some TDD mistakes and fixed them by tracking them. And now to help me maintain my good behaviour and reduce my recidivism rate, I install some eclipse plugins: Emma, FindBugs, PMD and mousefeed.

A simple explanation of dependency injection

For the longest time I didn’t know what dependency injection meant - anytime I looked it up I glazed over thinking it really complicated.
I only recently found out while learning TDD that I can describe dependency injection in terms of - pass an object in as a parameter instead of instantiating it in the class […]

Tracking TDD mistakes so I can fix them

Previously I made some TDD mistakes. So to fix them. I tracked them.
I tracked the mistakes by creating an index card that listed the ‘bad’ things on one side, and the ‘good’ things on the other side. Then noted when I did the bad things, and when I did the good things. The writing of […]

My Novice Mistakes in Test Driven Development

Since I generally present myself as a tester, coupled with my relatively novice status when coding in Java using TDD. I don’t mind writing up my TDD mistakes here.