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• The value of testing on short projects

  In this InfoQ article - http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/test-or-not - the author summarized Kent Beck (Author of JUnit Max) idea that smaller projects need less testing. Accroding to Beck, this helps the project to get off the ground. Now, I have to say that I do not agree with this at all. Testing, to me, is probably the part of software development that needs to have the most time allocated - manual or automated. In my opinion, moving testing to the background only results in bad and rotten code... Posted Jun 19 2009, 03:03 AM by riaan with Filed under: Social Networking, Web 2.0, Linux, C#, Integration, Software, Open Source, Business, Microsoft, Development, Agile, methodologies, SCRUM, startups, social media, riaan snyders, Mono, Elevato, Custom Development, php, art, of, Start Ups

• The Use Of Mock classes and TDD

  MSDN Magazine published this article - http:// msdn . microsoft .com/en- za /magazine/dd882516(en-us). aspx - on the use of Mocks and TDD to help in the design of OO programs. The use of Mocks is something I have always used and been a big fan of. Using Mocks I can visualise my goal better, design the underlining structure of the classes better and in general write better code. In my opinion, the use of Mock code is a practise that need to be seen as part of any software's design process. Share... Posted Jun 16 2009, 03:59 AM by riaan with Filed under: Java, dotnet, C#, Open Source, Code, Microsoft, Development, Architecture, Agile, SCRUM, Mono