Re: [Dunit-interest] XPGEN IDE CodeWizard

[Michael A. J. <csm...@ho...>]

> > Thanks. Have you tried it out? Has anyone?
>
> I haven't tried it out yet either. At the moment, I don't seem to need it
as
> I'm doing test-first all the time now. Then again, I haven't checked it
out,
> so maybe I'm missing something.
>
> How do you use it in your daily grind?

Remediating pre-existing code is pretty obvious - I generate the test stub,
write the tests and then start my tinkering and refactoring.

On a new unit I usually end doing the following because I am not gifted
enough to do true test first.

Firstly, I flesh out my class with the properties and methods etc that I am
going to need.  Then I usually hit control shift C to make Delphi generate
the stub with no implementation. I then generate the test stub. pick a test
and fill in the implementation for the test.  Then I usually go an provide
enough implementation to get that test working.  This usually means that the
constructor/destructor get implemented and a couple of helper functions get
implemented in the target class to make the method I am attempting to test
function and pass the first unit test.  For each test method XPGen generates
it provides a default implementation by making a call to fail('test not
implemeted'). If you run the test off the hop, you will get 100% failure. I
then work my way forward until I have 100% and I get the wonderful green bar
to appear. When that happens, I'm of course done and I move on to the next
bit of tests and code that I have to write.

--mike