Daily Archives: October 12, 2015

At last, I’m building some primitive UI. ASCII art for the win! Let’s explore how we can test-drive user interfaces. Things are somewhat easier with this kind of old-school UI type, but much of what we learn applies to fancier UIs as well. ► All Game of Life Episodes Share […]

Conway’s Game of Life #25 – Finally, UI

12 Oct, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged TDD / UI by letsdeveloper

If we write tests in a way nobody is able to understand them, then we end up with tests not worth writing. Because an automated test that takes me more time to understand than it would take me to just check the same thing manually, does not provide any value. […]

Insight of the Week #17 – Useful Tests

12 Oct, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Software Design / TDD by letsdeveloper

Using frameworks is great, because we can reuse functionality without going through the trouble implementing it. Using frameworks sucks, because often they do much more than we need and we have to somehow deal with this mismatch. ► All Game of Life Episodes Share this:

Conway’s Game of Life #24 – Bloated Interfaces

12 Oct, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Software Design / TDD by letsdeveloper

Whenever I hear somebody say: I’ll quickly finish this and then I write some tests for it, my head explodes. Why do we do this? If you know, please tell me! ► All My Insights Share this:

Insight of the Week #16 – Y U No Test?!?

12 Oct, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Software Craftsmanship / Testing / Unit Testing by letsdeveloper

Once upon a time, there was the original universe of Conway’s Game of Life. But to make it testable, the Developer created an abstraction of it and, thus, was born the possibility of other universes where different rules may apply. ► All Game of Life Episodes Share this:

Conway’s Game of Life #23 – An Abstract Universe

12 Oct, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Abstraction by letsdeveloper