On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Ashley Moran <ashley.mo...@patchspace.co.uk> wrote: > > On 14 Oct 2009, at 22:48, Matt Wynne wrote: > >> By the way, Sprout Class comes from 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code' >> (Feathers), which is probably the best book I've read on TDD (Admittedly >> I've yet to read The RSpec Book). Highly recommended. > > > I've heard good things about this book too. Do you also recommend xUnit > Patterns?
It's been a while since I've read that book. From what I remember it had a lot of great information, but there were many sections I don't find applicable for my coding practices. I think a lot of the typical xUnit styles of testing are heavily influenced from heavier weight languages (like Java for instance). I think that is reflected in much of the material in the book. I did enjoy reading it over a few month period because of the wealth of information, but I would consider many of the techniques dated given where the current state of tools (RSpec and Cucumber), the flexibility of our ruby, and the philosophy of BDD have put us. So if you're looking to read it for immediately applicable techniques I would say don't bother, but if you're an information-whore and want to gain a wealth of knowledge, and want to see a lot of thinking and techniques that have influenced a lot of today's tools and thinking, then read it, for sure, but don't expect to read it in a weekened or even a week... that would be information overload -- your brain would explode. Zach > > Bizarrely, I'm including xUnit patterns as a reference in a presentation on > mocks I'm giving tomorrow[1], despite never having read it. (Only because I > know it contains some mocking definitions I refer to...) > > Incidentally, the mocking section of the RSpec Book is very good. Which is > to say I agree with what it says :) > > Ashley > > [1] http://nwrug.org/events/october09/ > > -- > http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran > http://aviewfromafar.net/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > -- Zach Dennis http://www.continuousthinking.com (personal) http://www.mutuallyhuman.com (hire me) http://ideafoundry.info/behavior-driven-development (first rate BDD training) @zachdennis (twitter) _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
