This post is not going to be technical at all - pure theory of how to generate a change in minds of those who cannot accept what agility and test driven development are proposing. One of the biggest questions is "why". Why would someone bother to code to interfaces, if could deliver a working...

The goal of the application is to allow specifications for search (criteria’s) to be specified by the client in order to perform a custom search. Figure 1 demonstrates the requirement. I intestinally keep it simple for the sake of the exercise. Where do I start? This is probably the most difficult question...

Estimados Amigo@s : Me siento muy entusiasmado de arrancar muy bien el año con la " Comunidad de Desarrolladores de .Net de Guatemala ", ya que el día de ayer rompimos record de asistencia en el MSDN Tour "Extreme Practices". Ayer tuve la oportunidad de brindar una charla...

www.AgileSkills.org has a free online book available called Essential Skills for Agile Development that covers OO design, TDD and a number of other important development skills. This was originally posted to my previous blog. You can view the original post and any comments here .

Recientemente en la Comunidad de Desarrolladores de .Net de Guatemala , tuve la oportunidad de brindar una charla sobre el uso de Test Driven Development , sin embargo para aquellas personas que no pudieron asistir a mi presentación y que quieren conocer un poco más sobre este tema, les recomiendo...

Something I have learned from JP Boodhoo lately (and NOT the only thing): Filename: {SomeComponent}Specs     TestFixture: When{specification} SetUp: establish the context Test: Should {expected behaviour} SUT: exercised component    TestFixture: When {next specification}  ...

Why writing unit tests are so important - lets consider a development team developing a module( call it - [ A ])did not consider the unit testing that seriously. What happens to that module - 1. [ A] produced lot of Bugs in the development phase since it was not tested adequately. And while fixing it...

The XPlorations section of XP123.com has a number of XP-related resources, including the SimpleSpreadsheet example that first got me into TDD. This was originally posted to my previous blog. You can view the original post and any comments here .