Three Approval Katas

I’ve been favouring an Approval Testing approach for many years now, since I find it pretty useful in many situations, particularly for acceptance tests. Not many people I meet know the term though, and even fewer know how to use the technique. Recently...

Approval Testing

I blogged a while back about “Text-Based testing”, which is a variant of Test-Driven Development that I’ve used quite a bit. My husband, Geoff Bache, is developing several tools to support this style of development. Recently, we met Llewellyn Falco and discovered the...

What is Text-Based Testing?

Programmers have a vested interest in making sure the software they create does what they think it does. When I’m coding I prefer to work in the context of feedback from automated tests, that help me to keep track of what works and how far I’ve got....

Small methods, TDD and defects

Last week at Scottish Ruby Conference I chatted with Brian Marick about software design. The week before that, he had been in Göteborg for Scandinavian Developer Conference, and had spent a morning pair programming with Geoff on TextTest. I took the chance to ask...

Testing PyTDDmon

One of the things I like about GothPy is that lots of the people in the group enjoy writing code in their spare time, and like to share with us what they’re up to.A little while back, Olof came up with this little tool, PyTDDmon, which is to help you when...