[MO-java-dev] My blog talks about mockobjects

[Pat M. <jp...@cs...>]

Guys,
    After I sent my diffs earlier, I realized that you might be 
interested in my blog entries where I talk about how I'm learning how 
to do test-driven development. Here's the announcement that I've been 
sending out about it.

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I decided that my programming skills were getting rusty. So, I started 
learning Java and Test-Driven Development. I've just finished posting 
26 entries about it on my blog (http://blackbox.cs.fit.edu/blog/pat/) 
If you look at it, you should probably start with the first entry on 23 
June.

I decided to take a program that I had almost working (I swear, really, 
it was this close!), written in C using mostly the waterfall model, and 
to rewrite it in Java using Test-Driven Development. One part of the 
inspiration for this was that I was really getting frustrated with the 
program. Every time I wanted to work on it, I had to remember too much 
stuff, and I never got started again. Another was that I decided that I 
really wanted to learn Java well. Yet another was that, if I'm going to 
claim to know something about testing, I should have actually done a 
Test-Driven Development project.

Anyway, I've been working on this program for a couple of months now, 
and I've learned a lot. I've tried to leave lots of bread crumbs along 
my trail so you can follow along. If you decide to leap ahead of me, 
please leave me some bread crumbs.

Comments welcome, either on the blog or by email.
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    If you want to put a link to it on the mockobjects.com web page, 
that would be great with me. I'm planning on writing up a report about 
this later, maybe in the fall. If I do, I'll send you the link.

Pat