Monthly Archives: May 2014

In this episode I undo part of the refactoring from the last episode, where I tried to do to many things at a time and, thereby, broke my tests. I then redo the refactoring one step at a time, while continuously executing my test suite to verify that nothing broke. […]

Conway’s Game of Life #5 – Refactoring Redone

28 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / Refactoring by letsdeveloper

In this episode I start to refactor the Universe, since it’s implementation, though working, is very redundant. As I go along, I run into a typical issue when doing refactoring: I try to do to many things at once. As a result, my refactoring breaks the Universe. Stay tuned for […]

Conway’s Game of Life #4 – Refactoring Counterexample

28 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / Refactoring by letsdeveloper

In this episode I complete the Universe’s updating logic. During the implementation, I accept that redundancy is introduced into the production code. Stay tuned for the next episode where I make use of my test suite, to refactor the Universe. All code of this and all subsequent episodes is available […]

Conway’s Game of Life #3 – Updating the Universe

28 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

In this episode I start to develop the game environment, i.e., the Universe. As I go along, I emphasize readability of tests and explain how to configure Eclipse to help with static imports. All code of this and all subsequent episodes is available in a Github Repository: https://github.com/salsolatragus/letsdeveloper Share this:

Conway’s Game of Life #2 – Clean Tests and Static ...

28 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Eclipse / Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

In this episode I clean up and complete the tests and implementation of the game’s core rules, using the JUnitParams extension for JUnit. Share this:

Conway’s Game of Life #1 – Parameterized Tests with JUnitParams

26 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / JUnit / TDD / Tools by letsdeveloper

Pilot of my “Let’s Develop” (LD) project. In this episode I explain and implement the rules of Conway’s Game of Life in a TDD fashion. Share this:

Conway’s Game of Life #0 – TDD

26 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper