What's "TDD"? [was Re: [OT] TDD only works for simple things...]

2006-03-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 19:15, Tels wrote: > Anyway, I hope my longer replay was usefull and helped a bit, although I > still can only guess what TDD stands for :) > TDD == Test Driven Development. Regards, Shlomi Fish -

Re: [perl #38810] [PATCH] skip #7 t/dynoplibs/myops.t for mingw

2006-03-29 Thread Jurosz Michal
Err. This one is better. -- S pozdravem Michal Jurosz Index: t/dynoplibs/myops.t === --- t/dynoplibs/myops.t (revision 12069) +++ t/dynoplibs/myops.t (working copy) @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ use Parrot::Test tests => 8; use Parrot::Config;

Re: [OT] TDD only works for simple things...

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew Savige
--- Tels wrote: > although I still can only guess what TDD stands for :) Tolkien Driven Development? Googling around for examples of real world large systems developed using TDD, I found http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html which states: The first reaction that many people have to agile tec

Re: Testing with Apache/mod_perl

2006-03-29 Thread Geoffrey Young
> Apache::Test looks like it might be the way to go. But it doesn't seem > to play very nicely with Test::More, that's not really true. yes, Apache-Test was based on Test.pm (for various reasons I won't get into here) but I added Test::More support and use it all the time. grep for stuff lik

Testing with Apache/mod_perl

2006-03-29 Thread Nik Clayton
Is Apache::Test the current state of the art when it comes to testing that web apps work as expected? I'm working on fleshing out the test suite for SVN::Web. I've already got tests that verify that the basic functionality works, that generated links are sane, and so on. But I've been bitte

Re: [OT] TDD only works for simple things...

2006-03-29 Thread demerphq
On 3/28/06, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geoffrey Young wrote: > > >> "Only the simplest of designs benefits from pre-coded tests, unless you > >> have > >> unlimited developer time." > > needless to say I just don't believe this. > > Try writing a test suite ahead of time for a gra

Re: [OT] TDD only works for simple things...

2006-03-29 Thread Tels
Moin, On Tuesday 28 March 2006 20:01, Fergal Daly wrote: > On 3/28/06, Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Moin, > > > > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 17:14, Fergal Daly wrote: > > > I don't know of examples off-hand but I think in a way they're > > > > [snipabit] > > > > > Also, the problem with php (

Re: [OT] TDD only works for simple things...

2006-03-29 Thread Tels
Moin, On Tuesday 28 March 2006 20:11, Fergal Daly wrote: > On 3/28/06, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Geoffrey Young wrote: > > > David Cantrell wrote: > > >>Try writing a test suite ahead of time for a graphing library. > > >> It's possible (indeed, it's trivial - just check the m

Re: Perl 6 on Solaris 10 anyone ?

2006-03-29 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:09:33PM +0100, Stefan Parvu wrote: > > > > There is no official "Perl6" yet, but there is > > considerable development in > > the Pugs project http://www.pugscode.org . In order > > to run pugs, you'll > > To run Perl6 do I need Pugs ? I understood I would > need only

Re: Perl 6 on Solaris 10 anyone ?

2006-03-29 Thread Stefan Parvu
> I'm not aware of any pre-built packages, but the > Parrot VM should build > and past most of its tests on either Solaris x86 or > SPARC. Right. I will give a spin under Solaris Express (aka Nevada, Solaris 11) AMD64. > > There is no official "Perl6" yet, but there is > considerable developm

[perl #38810] [PATCH] skip #7 t/dynoplibs/myops.t for mingw

2006-03-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jurosz Michal # Please include the string: [perl #38810] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38810 > This transaction appears to have no contentBypass Win32 MinGW infinite loop for "tree