I came across this post by Martin Fowler today, and it got me thinking. I’m pretty serious about decomposing methods for re-use, and I definitely prefer shorter methods, but I haven’t been quite as strict about it as what I’ve heard him and others say (e.g. if it doesn’t fit… Read more »
I’ve been following Bob Martin on Twitter for awhile now; I think he has a lot of good things to say about programming, especially things like Agile and Fitnesse, which I’m interested in. Doesn’t hurt that I tend to agree with a lot of his outlook in general. This post… Read more »
This is probably of limited interest, since test fixtures should be simple enough that you don’t need to debug them very often. Plus with Fit, you can edit tests to give yourself visibility to data so actually seeing things run shouldn’t be a primary issue. However, I’ve found this useful,… Read more »
I’m in a QA testing cycle on my current project, so I have a few minutes here and there to look at things I’ve put aside during busy times. Right now I’m finally reading through Writing Testable Code by the Google people. It’s good, if a little Google-centric (lots of… Read more »
Not only can SoapUI mock a web service, it supports using SSL to connect to that service, and even to require client authentication via certificate. This post on the SoapUI support blog walks through the steps to enable SSL support, but doesn’t handle client authentication. There are also a couple of tricky… Read more »