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Guide: Writing Testable Code [pdf]
- CoffeeDregs 12y agoSeems like a nice guide and I plan to read it through fully. Does anyone have suggestions for other "how to test software" guides?
- jrvarela56 12y agoFollow http://googletesting.blogspot.com/ http://googletesting.blogspot.com/ for weekly posts about specific testing techniques.
- stevekl 12y agoI want to use this opportunity to open a discussion and get hacker news community's thoughts on preparing code examples. I always find many contrieved examples in coding guides such as: class Bicycle def initialize(size_of_wheels) # blah end def run # blah end end These are fine. But as such, the examples always fit well with the principles and you try to implement the principles, reality is a always far more messier. Are there a better way to write coding examples? does it ever make sense, to grab snippets from a real code base and so that it is in touch with reality
- nstart 12y agoThere are better ways as given in Robert C Martin's excellent book, Clean Code. He constantly refers to code taken from the Fitnesse repo and shows how the code looked before and after refactoring and testing. I do agree with the sentiment that real world code examples are more useful. When I was learning design patterns during my degree, we were actively discouraged from using Head First as THE reference even though it did simplify things. Our lecturer was later challenged on this view. He then took the students on a counter challenge to refactor and redesign code from real world examples (taken from students' projects). Reality hit quite hard for a lot of us as we struggled to see the patterns in less obvious situations. An interesting point to note however, was that after gaining an understanding of the design patterns at a practical level, I could then reference simple examples as given in Head First and immediately formulate how I would use it to solve a practical scenario that I might have been stuck with. Funny how it worked one way but not the other.
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- SoulMan 12y agoCould have just posted the HTML link :) http://misko.hevery.com/code-reviewers-guide/ http://misko.hevery.com/code-reviewers-guide/
- lumpypua 12y agoPDFs are nice. I print 'em out, read them on the crapper and pretend I'm at the googleplex. <3 Testing on the Toilet
- co_dh 12y agoI stop right at the "class". How possible can you test an OO class? Try some functional program, they are designed to be testable.