by Carlos Ble | May 18, 2013 | Agile, Clean code, Retrospectivas, Software Development, Test Driven Development
I’ve got goosebumps on my arms most of the day. And it doesn’t happen very often. This is the most emotional coding dojo I’ve ever facilitated. It’s been in Gran Canaria, at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EII ULPGC). The...
by Carlos Ble | Apr 7, 2013 | Agile, Clean code, Software Development, Test Driven Development
Writing quality code is about satisfying the expectations of the reader. And the reader might be yourself a couple of months later. Let me tell you a mistake a made recently. I was test-driving a few classes and one collaborator was a stack. But I only needed the...
by Carlos Ble | Apr 7, 2013 | Agile, JavaScript, Test Driven Development
JavaScript object literals are very handy, they are just key-value pairs. Very convenient to implement dictionaries and also a very simple implementation of the Singleton pattern: var message = {sender: ‘bob’, body: ‘hello’}; Duck typing is a...
by Carlos Ble | Apr 5, 2013 | Agile, Test Driven Development, Testing
It’s been my first time attending to an event at Skills Matter and it’s been awesome 😀 Cukeup! is the annual conference about BDD and Cucumber. This was the third edition. Let me share with you the ideas I listened yesterday. The ideas and sentences...
by Carlos Ble | Mar 22, 2013 | JavaScript, Test Driven Development
Promises are a nice solution to write readable asynchronous code in JavaScript. If you understand Spanish, I highly recommend this great talk on Promises by Enrique Amodeo. But, is the code with promises easy to unit test? It’s not very difficult, you have to...
by Carlos Ble | Mar 13, 2013 | Agile, Test Driven Development
Gracias a Jose Juan Hernández, profesor de ingeniería del software de la Escuela de Informática de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ayer 12 de marzo pudimos grabar la primera video conferencia con su clase. Hablamos de métodos ágiles, de testing y de TDD....
