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Brian Button | 1 Jun 2002 01:47

Re: Re: Honest inquiry

Eclipse is pretty modular, so a new story right now can pretty easily be
done with TDD. Its pieces are broken up into plugins, which are logically
separate units of functionality. As it stands now, each of these plugins has
hundreds of unit tests, and they've even built a way to run eclipse inside
eclipse so that you can run unit tests on plugins you are building. And the
developers of the refactoring plugin (org.eclipse.jdt.ui.refactoring IIRC)
are quite proud of the fact that they are practicing TDD as they add new
refactorings.

If anyone is interested, I'm building a plugin right now, and I'd be happy
to share some of what I've learned about developing plugins using TDD in
eclipse. All I want/need now is a pair...

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From: <schroeder <at> surfree.com>
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Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [XP] Re: Honest inquiry

> It might be very interesting to see a log of test-
> driving a couple of new stories for a program
> like Eclipse or Word.  A higher-level log of the
> stories implemented over time and how the

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Benjamin Schroeder | 3 Jun 2002 14:55

Re: Re: Honest inquiry


On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 07:47  PM, Brian Button wrote:

> Eclipse is pretty modular, so a new story right now can pretty easily be
> done with TDD. Its pieces are broken up into plugins, which are 
> logically
> separate units of functionality. As it stands now, each of these 
> plugins has
> hundreds of unit tests, and they've even built a way to run eclipse 
> inside
> eclipse so that you can run unit tests on plugins you are building. And 
> the
> developers of the refactoring plugin (org.eclipse.jdt.ui.refactoring 
> IIRC)
> are quite proud of the fact that they are practicing TDD as they add new
> refactorings.
>
> If anyone is interested, I'm building a plugin right now, and I'd be 
> happy
> to share some of what I've learned about developing plugins using TDD in
> eclipse. All I want/need now is a pair...

Brian,

I'd be interested to know more about your experiences.  Sorry for taking 
so long to reply to this post -- I was out over the weekend.

Thanks,
Ben Schroeder
schroeder <at> surfree.com

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