by Carlos Ble | Nov 28, 2013 | Retrospectivas, Software Development
I am one of the lecturers/mentors of the first IronHack edition, a training program for people who want to become professional developers. My part takes only three days and it’s been this week. Three full-day hands-on sessions on JavaScript, TDD and...
by Carlos Ble | Nov 24, 2013 | JavaScript, Test Driven Development, Testing
Many frameworks use the word “mock” for what in reality are “spies”. But that’s OK, the work “mock” in English covers actually all the possible test double types… However according to G. Meszaros, a mock object is a...
by Carlos Ble | Nov 14, 2013 | Testing
In general I prefer to wrap up system functions so that I can inject test doubles and test drive my designs easily. In general is not a good idea to mock objects you don’t own. But this time I was doing some research, preparing one edition of my Online Training...
by Carlos Ble | Nov 10, 2013 | Clean code
Methods should be short, from 1 to 7 lines of code, maximum 10 in some cases (with the exception of some algorithms). Because a method does just one thing its name should describe it precisely. But it should not contain implementation details (like data types). The...
by Carlos Ble | Nov 8, 2013 | Clean code
I believe the idea of a single exit point for functions comes from the 70’s. A function used to have only one exit point, a single return statement. I still see some developers doing this but it’s not a good idea. As soon as you have found what you were...
