Jared Wooten

Technical Coach | Extreme Programmer

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Let's Call Them Microtests!

April 06, 2020 by Jared Wooten

Naming is one of the most difficult tasks of development. My last team debated names of things because communication is crucial, but it is a challenge. Naming a paradigm, pattern, principle, namespace, class, variable, or whatever is an attempt to communicate with another engineer about a broader set of related ideas using a condensed term. Computers don't care what you name things in your code; It all becomes binary once it's compiled anyway.

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April 06, 2020 /Jared Wooten
unit testing, microtests, communication, extreme programming, arrange act assert, TDD, test-driven development
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Testing the Pre-Flight Sequence

March 16, 2020 by Jared Wooten

Since my MockBridgeConsole exposes me ways to observe method call counts, I simply write an assertion that I've called the PressGreenButton() method once.

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March 16, 2020 /Jared Wooten
TDD, test-driven development, extreme programming, c#, arrange act assert
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Just Write a Test!

March 11, 2020 by Jared Wooten

The value of knowing how to get started testing cannot be understated. Once you build a little momentum, each successive test is a little easier to write.

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March 11, 2020 /Jared Wooten
TDD, test-driven development, black box testing, extreme programming, c#
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