Montag, März 29, 2004

Acceptance Testing with Fitnesse

Fitnesse is an open-source acceptance testing framework based on FIT and a Wiki web. It is one of the best tools I have seen in the last years. It works with Java, C# and some other programming languages. Tests are defined with HTML tables (creating HTML tables with the Fitnesse wiki is quite easy) and connected to the application under test with so called fixtures. The fixtures have to be programmed by the developers - the effort is small. After having the tables with the test data and the fixtures the tests can be run from Fitnesse directly. The fixtures are simply classes that call other classes of the application under test. If core functional classes or UI classes are called (perhaps with a library like Jemmy) is the decision of the developers. Similar to JUnit tests can be combined to suites.
Fitnesse is suitable to let customers or business experts/analysts define the tests - test first for acceptance tests is enabled.


http://www.fitnesse.org/

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Interesting Material about Agile Methods and OO

Some of the material is english, some is german:
http://wiki.ipponsoft.de/ewiki/AgileWiki.php?page=Termine

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Freitag, März 12, 2004

Eric Evans: "Domain Driven Design"

Really good books about how to design the core domain model of an application are very rare. Eric Evans has written one.
Domain modeling is handled from the very small (entities, value objects, associations) to the very large (components, layers). Evans argues that creating a ubiquitous language shared by domain experts and developers is essential for the success of domain modelling. While the book refers to agile methods it is applicable for agile and non-agile methods.

The book is written in a pattern style and can therefore be read from start to end or be used as a handbook to answer specific questions at hand.

I strongly recommend "Domain Driven Design" to every OO designer and programmer.

There is a website related to the book which provides additional information and discussions of the topic.

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Donnerstag, März 11, 2004

Test Java Unit Tests with Jester (Open-Source)

Some months ago I heard of Jester a tool for testing Java unit tests. How do you test a test? The Jester approach is very simple but powerful: Jester modifies the tested source code and runs the tests after the modification. If the test fails, the test is OK. If the test passes, the test is incomplete.
The modifications to the code are based on very simple algorithms like incrementing integer constants by one, reverse conditions in if statements etc.
If contributed some minor extensions to Jester myself.
And Jester shares one attractive property with many other simple, but powerful tools: it is Open Source software.

Jester at Source-Forge

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Dependencies of XP Practices

Kent Beck shows the influences of the XP practices in his book and there are a lot of influences. The shown tangle isn't very useful when it comes to introducing the XP practices into a project. Then the essential depedencies are impotant: Which XP practice does require other XP practices to work.
I have put together the essential dependencies here.

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Mittwoch, März 10, 2004

Agile Project Controlling

Henning Wolf and I wrote an article about Agile Project Controlling which was accepted for the XP 2004 conference. See you there!

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WebLog active

Now even I try to use a WebLog (in fact Blogger). I integrated the parts of my old site via the link section on the left of the page. The old parts are still in the old layout. Therefore they don't look pretty, but at least they are there. I promise to work on the layout in the future.

Thats me:


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