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Better Testing Through Behaviour

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Just finished my talk on Better Testing Through Behaviour at OSDC 2007. All in all it went pretty well.

The presentation is available as is the paper.

Chris sent me some pictures of my talk, here’s one.

Tom at OSDC 2007

There’s been some posts (good and indifferent) resulting from the talk:

And for those interested, the slides for OSDC 2007 are available on SlideShare, photos on flickr.

Written by Tom Adams

November 27th, 2007 at 1:46 pm

Posted in Agile, BDD, Instinct, Java, Ruby, TDD

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  1. Tom,

    FYI, Both of those links point to the same blog article.

    C

    Chris Myers

    28 Nov 07 at 10:31 am

  2. Nice presentation.

    I still haven’t completely grokked BDD, its hard to tell if the spec is part of the core code OR sits outside and looks in like unit tests. Its certainly less easy to grasp than plain old TDD using xUnit, but that may be because I’ve already been exposed to/tainted by xUnit :-)

    Keith

    28 Nov 07 at 10:49 am

  3. Keith: Think of specs as tests if that helps, specifications are a replacement for xUnit code. It’s not too much harder to grasp, it’s just the subtle differences that I have a hard time explaining to people.

    Chris: Thanks, links fixed.

    Tom Adams

    28 Nov 07 at 10:52 am

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