Mock objects and life expectancy

For my sins, I’m a smoker and caffeine-addict. On a previous project, before I discovered the mock-objects religion, it took so long to run unit tests before a code check-in that I had time to nip downstairs, get a coffee, have a quick cigarette and be back upstairs before the green bar was halfway done. [...]

A test by any other name

RubyOnRails comes with built-in support for unit and functional testing – great for us test-driven development whackos. In a new rails application we’re developing, we used the excellent salted hash login generator to kick off the development of our site’s authentication. The login generator ships with tests – yippee! Since it’s a widely used extension [...]