Software As She’s Developed

From the cashing-in-on-ITunes-4.9-hype department, the first podcast in ages.

This time, first of two parts on testing and JUnit. Random apologetic waffle and some announcements at the beginning, main content begins 8 minutes in.

Main thing is, much much less processing and upfront planning so as to just get more of these things out. So if it sounds a bit, err, “spontaneous”, do not adjust your ipod.

Testing and JUnit

• Lightning-fast overview of JUnit (if lightning took long winding tangents).
• A shared universe of test objects - related to test fixtures, ObjectMother, Domain-Driven Design, personae.
• Testing subclasses - Liskov Substitutability Principle, super.setup() problem
• Test suites and time for running all tests

Announcements

• Polymorphic Podcast
• Might Seek
• Techpodcasts Network

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