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Re: No more excuses: junit testing log messages

Guest — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:07:44 -0000

An elegant solution. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Objective-C for busy Java Developers 1: Calling methods

Facebook — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:27:06 -0000

nice post

Re: “Agile iPhone Development” at Xpug Milano

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Re: Installing Sinatra on Site5

Nathan Fritz — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:39:14 -0000

John is correct. Something changed, and now rubygems are loading too early to honor the environmental variables.

I corrected it with:

require 'rubygems' || Gem.clear_paths

I did a write up (and cited your post) at:
http://forums.site5.com/showth...

Re: Installing Sinatra on Site5

rengo.Java — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:42:17 -0000

I cant get clearly where to put the .htaccess and config.ru files.
How is the directory tree?
/home/your_user/sinatra/htaccess ?

Re: Installing Sinatra on Site5

John — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:52:43 -0000

I thought I would show what I had to do (with the help of site5 great staff) to get your tutorial to work on the current site5 ruby setup.
Add the following line below your 2 ENV lines in the config.ru file:
Gem.clear_paths

Without it, ruby cant't seem to find the sinatra gem installed.
-John

Re: “Better Software Developers” slides from Better Software 2010

devsmt — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:11:33 -0000

complimenti giordano, questa presentazione è molto bella, chiara sintetica ironica quanto occorre...

Re: Bdd with JBehave

giordano scalzo — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:47:57 -0000

:-) thanks a lot.
I'm very glad this post helped you to understand a little Bdd.

I admit the using JBehave with this kind of tiny problems is a bit cumbersome, because use a Bdd tools is more effective for acceptance/functional test, but it can be useful for unitesting too.

Re: Bdd with JBehave

Danja — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:54:29 -0000

I strongly disagree with the subtitle of your blog. :-)

Your posts on BDD, and specifically on JBehave, have been extremely USEFUL to me. I was able to run your example of StringTemplater, and through that exercise gain a much better understanding of JBehave than by following the official documentation. I think I quite like it, even if the process of writing tests could be a bit cumbersome.

Re: Private git repositories on Site5

giordano scalzo — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:09:29 -0000

I'm very happy this post made your setup easy: I had the same problem and this is the kind of post I would make it as easy as point

Re: Private git repositories on Site5

Stephen Orth — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:41:19 -0000

Thanks much for the post. I too have a Site5 account and I've been toying with the idea of setting up my own private git repo there... you have made it very easy with this post.

Re: Using Google Wave as learning tool

giordano scalzo — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:56:02 -0000

Of course. I think most people still don't know how to use Google Wave: the medium is really new and they tend to use it as something they already know, as email or webpage. Anyway, kudos to you for initiating this pioneering experiment ;-)

As a little thing to add, I really like your RPCFN series: the challenge and following comments by gurus are the better way to learn something in deep way, I'd like to find the same pattern attending an online course. Just my two cents.

Re: Using Google Wave as learning tool

Satish Talim — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:46:32 -0000

The course would be more interesting if participants make use of the various Google Wave facilities and interact more.

Re: Using Google Wave as learning tool

giordano scalzo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:11:57 -0000

As usual Google Product are often in perpetual beta ;-). Actually Wave is in test field until the end of the year.

I thought to start some develompment, but I still don't understand what to do...

Re: Using Google Wave as learning tool

Charles Feduke — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:05:16 -0000

I used it in beta (actually until I read this I thought it still *was* in beta). A great concept if you can get every one of your friends using it. I tried doing some development with it and because of the inconsistent bugs at the time it was overall very aggravating - but that's the point of a beta after all.

Re: No more excuses 2: junit testing System time

Andrea Cerisara — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:57:06 -0000

Me too, I've just booked it :-)

Re: No more excuses 2: junit testing System time

giordano scalzo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:05:36 -0000

I knew Koskela's book is a must read, but my pile is very tall.
I'll add it with this http://www.amazon.com/Growing-...

Re: No more excuses 2: junit testing System time

Andrea Cerisara — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:23:24 -0000

Great, please go on with this series! :-) The same pattern is described also in Koskela's Test Driven book.

Re: My solution to RPCFN 2

giordano scalzo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:01:20 -0000

woops!
the correct one is

	context 'for "11:59pm" and "12:01am' do
		it 'should be "12:00am"' do
			avg = average_time_of_day(["11:59pm", "00:01am"])
			avg.should == "12:00am"
		end
	end

I misread this comment http://rubylearning.com/blog/2....

thanx to point it out.

Re: My solution to RPCFN 2

Pietro Di Bello — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:37:05 -0000

It seems to me that a spec is incorrect, since 23:59pm doesn't make sense to me (even if I guess this test is still green).

context 'for "23:59pm" and "12:01am' do
  it 'should be "12:00am"' do
    avg = average_time_of_day(["23:59pm", "00:01am"])
    avg.should == "12:00am"
  end
end

anyway, good job!

Re: No more excuses: junit testing log messages

Andrea Cerisara — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:36:43 -0000

To clarify myself, for example (without interface, using an object seam):

in LoggingObject

protected Logger logger()
{
    return Logger.getLogger(LoggingObject.class);
}

public void starts()
{
    logger().info("I'm starting");
}

in ALoggingObject

private Logger logger;

@Before
public void setUp()
{
    logger = mock(Logger.class);
    loggingObject = new LoggingObject()
    {
        @Override
        public Logger logger()
        {
            return logger;
        }
    };
}

@Test
public void shouldLogWhenStarts()
{
    loggingObj.starts();
    verify(logger).info("I'm starting");
}

Re: No more excuses: junit testing log messages

Andrea Cerisara — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:15:20 -0000

That's true, but you have a static dependency that, in my opinion, makes hard to test your object. Just a thought anyway :-)

Re: No more excuses: junit testing log messages

giordano scalzo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:39:32 -0000

mmm
in fact RecordingAppender it's just a kind of test double ;-)
I agree with you, that injecting that responsibility should be more clear.

Thanks for your suggestion

Re: No more excuses: junit testing log messages

Andrea Cerisara — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:07:28 -0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that LoggingObject is a business object: in that case I would probably extract the logging functionality to an interface and test it through an interaction test with some kind of test double.

Re: Infinitest: an autotest for Eclipse

Andrea — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:29:20 -0000

Sounds good, I'll give it a try. Check out also http://misko.hevery.com/2009/0....