Roy has a pretty thoughful post on the barrier to entry for most developers with Test-Driven Development. I hope I am not doing Roy a disservice by summarizing it as: we have made TDD unapproachable to many by making it more and more complex. I would agree with many of the points that Roy makes about...

It's been a while. I have been heads down on a new project (more about that some other time), and have not got around to posting. Without further ado here is the follow up post to TDD and Hart To Test Areas, Part 1 . Depend upon Abstractions The Gang of Four’s first principle is to program against...

One thing that came up in a couple of sessions of Altnetconf UK was the old saw of classicist vs. mockist approaches to TDD. Martin Fowler has a great, and updated, article on the distinction between the two approaches here . Now I have to confess to being a classicist. I tried being a mockist, but I...

I'll be back on LINQ architecture after the holidays, but in the meantime, I wanted to share some of the bad, some of the places where we have had bitter experiences. When NMock first appeared we embraced the behaviour verification style that it supported. We liked the idea that for 'unit tests'...