A whole post about getting to the refactoring; what nonsense... Wait... I did that... >.< First thing you gotta ask yourself when refactoring is, "Do I feel lucky?" Well... Do ya? 'Cause if you're feeling lucky; don't worry about unit tests. If…
NOTE: This is VERY casual writing. Basically; I'm jotting thoughts/steps down kinda haphazardly as I'm going through things. I'm not gonna clean this one up. If I feel like basing a heavy article on it; I will; but here - Pffft; deal with…
A week into the bowling game, the time it's taken me to complete the exercise decreased quite a bit from the first time I did it. Day 1: 60 minutes Day 2: 45 minutes Day 3: 30 minutes Day 4: 26 minutes Day 5: 15 minutes Day one…
This is part 1 of a unknown number of posts going through a wrapper around android.util.Log that I use in a number of projects. My favorite feature of this wrapper is being able to turn off logging while running tests. This particular iteration doesn't turn it…
I've developed my own pattern for the UI presentation. It's evolved from MVVM[1] . Basically; I was implementing MVVM, found some aspects not to my taste; and changed it into something I like. The result of this is a composite pattern I'm calling the…
As I find and work through new Kata's to use at TDD Kata's I'll write up my version of the kata here. I expect most will be similar to the source I find; and I don't expect any to be original. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
I never quite understood the practicality of Code and TDD Katas. The idea behind a kata is that you do it over and over and over... Until you can do it in your sleep. "Why would I want to code tic-tac-toe a thousand times over?" "Why build…
I've been studying TDD and XP for only 6 months. I'm totally on board with the practices, just struggle sometimes. :) I'm sitting waiting for an oil change to finish and reading Kent Beck's "Test Driven Development" and it calls out…