Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I'm still building up to my article on how to properly mock calls to Rake's sh to facilitate testing of your Rakefile tasks but I haven't quite worked up the strength to trace the calls through the libraries and into Eigenclass wonderland. For the moment, I've got just enough fodder to write a bit about determinism in testing.
Since Friday, both a coworker and I have been hit by the same testing…
I've recently been satisfying my need for more programming time and reading up on some of the aspects which really complete a good application, like adequate organisation, good design and reusability of library functions, error handling and of course testing. I've been using Cucumber for a while now in conjunction with Puppet which represents the BDD aspect, but haven't really delved into TDD…