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ACCU on Wednesday 'The Parrot Virtual Machine' Allison Randal

Walter Vannini — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:01:11 GMT

When: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Topic: The Parrot Virtual Machine Speaker: Allison Randal Time: 6:30pm doors open 7:00pm meeting begins Where:

Re: [growing-oo-software-guided-by-tests] Feedback on "Testing Persi

yanfali — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:59:04 GMT

... Shenanigans. We're testing persistence layers. Otherwise what is the point of this chapter. This smells like architecture astronauting. We do care we

Re: [growing-oo-software-guided-by-tests] Feedback on "Testing Persi

Wayne Vucenic — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:14:52 GMT

... I found your explanation above very helpful, and I think it would be worth stating in the text. Wayne

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Russ Rufer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:17:24 GMT

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Re: Feedback on "Appendix A. jMock2 Cheat Sheet"

Dave Smith — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:48:26 GMT

... On re-read, that's silly. It's a short hop between ExpectationBuilder and Expectation once you get past the lack of a link. Dave

Feedback on "Appendix A. jMock2 Cheat Sheet"

Dave Smith — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:38:14 GMT

Many of the SVP reviewers weren't happy with the tests that use of jMock, finding them hard to decipher. I think that a subset of the group is fairly

Re: Feedback on "Testing Persistence"

Yan-Fa Li — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:43:54 GMT

not at all. ... From: Dave Smith Subject: Re: [svp] Feedback on "Testing Persistence" To: siliconvalleypatterns@yahoogroups.com Date:

Re: Feedback on "Testing Persistence"

Dave Smith — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:14:11 GMT

Thanks, Yan. Mind if I forward your comment to the growing-oo-software list? Dave

Re: Feedback on "Testing Persistence"

Yan-Fa Li — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:50:44 GMT

Hi Dave, I think there was some lost in translation effects. So my point about this chapter was, current "best" practices are to use DAOs for accessing the

Feedback on "Testing Asynchronous Code"

Dave Smith — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:20:32 GMT

Feedback on this chapter is a bit sparce: By this point review burnout was setting in. We had a bit of trouble with this chapter. On reviewer's comment was "If

Feedback on "Unit Testing and Threads"

Dave Smith — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:02:11 GMT

First paragraph: there's a missing comma on one side of 'first' in "When writing unit tests first". From context, I'm guessing it goes after 'tests'. In

Feedback on "Testing Persistence"

Dave Smith — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:34:02 GMT

The group had some mixed opinions on this chapter. Some questioned whether "issues correct queries" was worth testing, assuming that the third-party ORM had

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tracy_bialik — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:05:47 GMT

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Re: [growing-oo-software-guided-by-tests] Feedback on "Constructing

Dave Smith — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:54:49 GMT

... That's it exactly. My use of "at least to us" was allowing for your not seeing this as the common problem we see it as. Dave

Re: [growing-oo-software-guided-by-tests] Feedback on "Constructing

Russ Rufer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:10:50 GMT

... I think that "at least to us" phrase is significant. Looking back over the last 5 years or so, *every* project I've joined part way through that has been