I received a recommendation from Ted Young recently to try a switch to IntelliJ IDEA as an alternative to Eclipse IDE. I’ve been using Eclipse for years, but figured I’d give this tool a try, as it’s brought to you by the clever folks that make Resharper. Uncle Bob uses it in his series of…
Today, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy a time I had setting up some JSP pages to interact with my ongoing Java/Spring MVC home automation server. I seem to remember the setup for this being annoying in a past Java life, but my experience today was the opposite. So, here is a brief summary…
This is yet another in my series of posts on using JUnit from the perspective of a C# developer. Goals Today, I have the following goals in my quest for JUnit TDD proficiency. Use a BDD-style testing scheme with nested classes. Use mocking framework to verify method call Use mocking framework to verify method call…
Last night, I posted about my adventures with TDD in Java from a C# developer’s perspective. As I start to shake my Java rust off a bit, I’m enjoying this more and more, so I think I’ll keep this series going for at least a bit, documenting some of my trials, travails, successes and failures….
As I’ve blogged previously, I’ve become increasingly dependent on TDD to the point where I’m basically addicted to the practice. I start to get nervous and twitchy if I’m writing code that isn’t driven by tests — it feels like putting a mop into a bucket of filthy water and then using it to ‘clean’….
