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CodeCamp: in need input

Posted by Owen Evans on Monday, August 18th, 2008

Ok so this is a bit of a plea.
I’ve a week or so to work on my CodeCamp presentation “MVC and Me” (ok so would have been cooler to link to flight of the navigator but that’s too hard for me to pull off) and I’m still trying to gather as many ideas about what [...]

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Split And Sprint

Posted by Owen Evans on Thursday, August 14th, 2008

In a forthcoming book (before you ask I’ve no idea what the title is) there’s a little case study about the first project i ever truly worked on as a developer. The project and the team have some of my fondest memories, and I’d want to work with any of the people in the small [...]

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Post 300

Posted by Owen Evans on Friday, August 8th, 2008

Ok I just had to cheat an make up a reason to post. But this is my 300th post, this blog has been going for more than 5 years (25 Feb 2003 was my first post, those heady days of university). that’s 1992 days, so an average of one post every 6.64 days. (my goodness [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘bdd’

NSpecify => RSpec… well closer anyway

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

So as I’ve been doing some Ruby+Rails work recently, I’ve become very enamoured of Rspec, it’s ability to turn plain text tests into runable tests is awesome.
I love that I can run this as an automated test:
Story: News Page
As a visitor
I Want to go to the news site
So that I can keep up with all [...]

NSpecify Nunit add-in fix for InitializeFunctionality methods

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Well I still exist!
Recently I’ve been moving more and more into understanding how a specification test should be written using NSpecify a really nice framework for running tests.
Also I’ve been seriously involved in getting the teams build process up and running in a much more meaningful form, as such I’ve noticed a bug in the [...]