TDD – it’s all about the concrete.

A recent thread on the LRUG mailing list got me thinking again about Test-Driven Development. Actually, more accurately, it made me furious and a bit depressed – macho posturing, regurgitated nonsense, deliberate misunderstandings. All creating the impression that there’s a debate about whether TDD works, and that that debate should be about individual developer competency. [...]

Mocha-loka-choka

James Mead has released his Mocha stubbing and mocking framework for Ruby up on rubyforge. From the README: Mocha is a library for mocking and stubbing within tests using a syntax like that of JMock and SchMock. Mocha comes in three parts: 1. Mocha – traditional mock objects with expectations and verification 2. Stubba – [...]