Serdar Tumgoren dixit:
> I'll admit, I learned the hard way on a project earlier this year. I
> got that project done (again with the help of folks on this list), but
> didn't do any test-writing up front. And now, as the inevitable bugs
> crop up, I'm forced to patch them hoping that I don't bre
> Yes, this is much better. Notice how much less code it is! :-)
Yes, it was amazing to see how much code melted away when I gave up on
the OO design. As you and others suggested, clearly this was not the
correct approach for this portion of my program.
> If you expect unicode input then it makes
Serdar Tumgoren dixit:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm trying to apply some lessons from the recent list discussions on
> unit testing and Test-Driven Development, but I seem to have hit a
> sticking point.
>
> As part of my program, I'm planning to create objects that perform
> some initial data clean-up
Serdar Tumgoren wrote:
Hi Kent and Lie,
First, thanks to you both for the help. I reworked the tests and then
the main code according to your suggestions (I really was muddling
these TDD concepts!).
The reworked code and tests are below. In the tests, I hard-coded the
source data and the expect
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Serdar Tumgoren wrote:
> Hi Kent and Lie,
>
> First, thanks to you both for the help. I reworked the tests and then
> the main code according to your suggestions (I really was muddling
> these TDD concepts!).
>
> The reworked code and tests are below. In the tests,
Hi Kent and Lie,
First, thanks to you both for the help. I reworked the tests and then
the main code according to your suggestions (I really was muddling
these TDD concepts!).
The reworked code and tests are below. In the tests, I hard-coded the
source data and the expected results; in the main p
On 12/9/2009 10:43 AM, Kent Johnson wrote:
So my questions -- Am I misunderstanding how to properly write unit
tests for this case? Or perhaps I've structured my program
incorrectly, and that's what this duplication reveals? I suspected,
for instance, that perhaps I should group these methods
(co
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Serdar Tumgoren wrote:
> As part of my program, I'm planning to create objects that perform
> some initial data clean-up and then parse and database the cleaned
> data. Currently I'm expecting to have a FileCleaner and Parser
> classes. Using the TDD approach, I've
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to apply some lessons from the recent list discussions on
unit testing and Test-Driven Development, but I seem to have hit a
sticking point.
As part of my program, I'm planning to create objects that perform
some initial data clean-up and then parse and database the cleaned
