Conway’s Game of Life

If I look at old code of mine and I struggle to understand it, I know it’s time for a refactoring. Clean up the campground. This is the first part of me doing this. ► All Game of Life Episodes: http://goo.gl/xc59GX ► Let’s Develop! http://letsdeveloper.com ► Don’t Miss an Episode: […]

Conway’s Game of Life #7 – Boyscout Rule – Part ...

28 Jan, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Boyscout Rule / Game Development / Refactoring by letsdeveloper

The WatchDog eclipse plugin gives us statistics about our testing behaviour. The plugin is part of the TestRoots project that aim’s at analysing testing behaviour and improving testing support in IDEs. ► The TestRoots Project: http://testroots.org/ ► An Interview about TestRoots and WatchDog: http://youtu.be/-06ymo7dSHk ► Let’s Develop! http://letsdeveloper.com ► Don’t […]

Eclipse – WatchDog Setup

12 Jan, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Eclipse / Tools by letsdeveloper

Let’s face it: Eclipse’s shortcuts for test execution are a nightmare. There’s no way to run a test that hasn’t been previously executed and who want’s to press Cmd+Alt+X+T to rerun the last execution? Luckily there’s help.The MoreUnit plugin comes with some handy shortcuts and other nice features. ► MoreUnit […]

Eclipse – MoreUnit

12 Jan, 2015 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Eclipse / TDD / Tools by letsdeveloper

In this episode, I investigate on the statement and simple condition coverage of my tests suite for the game logic. I explain the different features of the EclEmma plugin for Eclipse and show you how they work. Join me! ► All Game of Life Episodes: http://goo.gl/xc59GX ► Let’s Develop! http://letsdeveloper.com […]

Conway’s Game of Life #6 – Test Coverage with EclEmma

25 Nov, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Coverage / Eclipse / Tools by letsdeveloper

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