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Comment on The wrong duplication (reprise) by xpmatteo

xpmatteo — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:48:20 +0000

Yes please! I’d love to see a code example.

Comment on Faster Rails controller specs by Evan R. Murphy

Evan R. Murphy — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:06:35 +0000

In what way?

Comment on Faster Rails controller specs by Kevin Rutherford

Kevin Rutherford — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:30:11 +0000

Yes, and Devise itself has moved on somewhat too.

Comment on Faster Rails controller specs by Evan R. Murphy

Evan R. Murphy — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:19:19 +0000

This issue of Devise::TestHelpers’ sign_in requiring database interaction was troubling me so I’ve been searching around. That’s how I found this article – which is good. But I was also pleasantly surprised to find a Devise-endorsed article on the subject: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Stub-authentication-in-controller-specs The implementation is similar to yours but not exactly the same.

Comment on initial observations on kanban introduction by Shaquandra

Shaquandra — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:40:29 +0000

I like hrbiyds where there are pooled segments chained together e.g. fuzzy-front-end -> engineering -> operations.

Comment on “refactoring” is unhelpful jargon by Nita

Nita — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:12:10 +0000

Hello.This post was relaly motivating, especially because I was browsing for thoughts on this subject last Sunday.

Comment on gravity and software adaptability by anonypalm

anonypalm — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:37:38 +0000

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Comment on the saff squeeze by Tests Aren’t Just For Testing: Stop Using The Debugger « Paul Shannon – Agile Software Development

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:36:23 +0000

[...] their efforts, and briefly looked at the code, but immideiately thought back to my days spent with Agile Coach Kevin Rutherford. Kevin used to tut disapprovingly every time we started the debugger, suggesting that we were just [...]

Comment on better tester, worse code by My response to A Testers Commitments from James Bach | Duncan Nisbet

My response to A Testers Commitments from James Bach | Duncan Nisbet — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:44:29 +0000

[...] own feet. An interesting observation on that point has been made in a post by Kevin Rutherford here My role as a Tester isn’t just to check the software being written by the Programmers (the [...]

Comment on turning requirements into user stories by Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:38:56 +0000

This is whole concept of User Stories is nuts – providing ambiguous desriptions of requirements to development and expect them to deliver what the customer wants!! really!! – get real… you must discuss and model the customers requirements and produce a Business Process Diagram (BPD)/ Use Case (high-level at least) and then a flow of events – its been my experience that gaps in functionality and poor customer satisfaction arises from poorly spec’d requirements and leaves you open to scope creap whereby the functional requirements from an users perspective are not met because the user story is not completely fleshed out. User Stories are ONLY useful if considered as a high-level 4-line paragraph that descripts a use case. Modelling BPD’s and Use Cases ensure that the complete end-to-end view of a customers requirement can be met – a small paragraph doesnt achieve this.

Steve

Comment on Don’t inherit code by Saager Mhatre (@dexterous)

Saager Mhatre (@dexterous) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:51:35 +0000

Good ol’ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CompositionInsteadOfInheritance ! :)

Comment on hexagonal soup by Conditionals on the edge « silk and spinach

Conditionals on the edge « silk and spinach — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:33:16 +0000

[...] code. Most conditionals are duplicates, and the only “genuine” conditionals are at the system boundaries, where they test external state and input information. But I discovered recently that, even at the [...]

Comment on if… by Conditionals on the edge « silk and spinach

Conditionals on the edge « silk and spinach — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:33:15 +0000

[...] you know, I have a thing about conditional code. Most conditionals are duplicates, and the only “genuine” conditionals are at the system boundaries, where they test [...]

Comment on the anti-if campaign by Conditionals on the edge « silk and spinach

Conditionals on the edge « silk and spinach — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:33:12 +0000

[...] you know, I have a thing about conditional code. Most conditionals are duplicates, and the only “genuine” conditionals are at the [...]

Comment on more on the muda of multi-tasking by Muda 7 Wastes

Muda 7 Wastes — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:45:15 +0000

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