Thanks Dylan! I'll take a look.

On 2010-01-04, Dylan Jay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> The talk I gave at the conference was on how we did TDD and how we  
> made it fun and natural.
>
> www.ustream.tv/recorded/2445994
>
> www.slideshare.net/djay/test-browser-driven-development
>
> The short version is we did it from the end user level, wrote usecases  
> and then turned them into functional tests using testbrowser, all  
> before we wrote code. Since testbrowser is a small api and writing  
> from the user persepective is very natural this worked out to be an  
> effective way of specifying the system for developers (even if the  
> developer is you as I've found).
>
> Like all forms of TDD is really helped us work out enough details of  
> what we really wanted before we'd gone too far and had to do rework.
>
> Re manuals: at the end I propose a way that the testbrowser doctests  
> can then be turned directly into a manual with automated screenshots.  
> The netsight guys were really excited about working on this and Joel  
> Burton already had already worked on something that does something  
> similar just not with the testbrowser syntax. It's a cool idea that I  
> don't think would be hard to do for someone that likes a little AI and  
> graphics manipulation.
>
> ---
> Dylan Jay, Plone Solutions Manager
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>
> On 04/01/2010, at 2:41 PM, Alex Clark wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to master TDD in the way Mr. Wilkes describes it here: 
>> http://www.circulartriangle.com/blog/?p=10
>> by the end of 2010. To that end, I have a "test product" called  
>> collective.project that I am looking for
>> feedback on: 
>> https://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/collective.project/trunk/README.txt
>>
>> I had originally promised to deliver tests and a user manual for it  
>> by the end of the year, but since I missed
>> that deadline I thought I'd set a new one. I've written tests  
>> before. I know how to run the
>> testrunner. I just can't make a habit of it which is what I'm  
>> looking to change.
>>
>> A bit about the code:
>>
>>    - There are 4 dexterity content types: client, project,  
>> iteration, task.
>>        - 
>> https://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/collective.project/trunk/collective/project/client.py
>>        - 
>> https://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/collective.project/trunk/collective/project/project.py
>>        - 
>> https://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/collective.project/trunk/collective/project/iteration.py
>>        - 
>> https://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/collective.project/trunk/collective/project/task.py
>>
>>    - There is a "bulk iteration creator":
>>        - 
>> https://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/collective.project/trunk/collective/project/browser/create_iteration.py
>>
>>    - I've just begun to move duplicated code from the content types  
>> to a common module.
>>        - 
>> https://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/collective.project/trunk/collective/project/common.py
>>
>> What I'm looking for:
>>
>>    - Advice on what types of tests you'd expect to see.
>>
>>    - Ideas to make testing "fun".
>>
>>    - Code review.
>>
>>    - Any comments that may strike you.
>>
>> Thanks and happy new year,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> ---
>> Alex Clark · http://aclark.net
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>>
>>
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