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Phlip | 3 Apr 2010 18:09
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[TFUI] My book on TDD for Views is available online

 

http://zeroplayer.com/tfui/TestFirstUserInterfaces.pdf

It addresses these industry abuses:

- skipping the View layer in TDD
- testing the View thru a user-emulator (such as Watir!)
- writing the View code first, then testing it (a little!)

The goal is new test cases drive new View features, without looking at or
driving the View too often.

That is a tall hill to scale, hence the book is very dense. However, each
chapter and case study contains its own Best Practices that can be learned
alone, just by reading them.

Work with the book inspired my subsequent research with RoR, including
assert{ 2.0 }, assert_xhtml{}, and assert_rjs_. An alternate Web chapter is
my O'Reilly paper on TDD for Ajax: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657

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    George Dinwiddie | 8 Apr 2010 14:57
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    Re: [TFUI] My book on TDD for Views is available online

     

    Phlip,

    Just so you know, the diagrams come out as black rectangles (sometimes
    with labeled white rectangles on them) when viewed with Preview on my
    Mac. I haven't tried reading on a different machine, yet.

    - George

    Phlip wrote:
    > http://zeroplayer.com/tfui/TestFirstUserInterfaces.pdf
    >
    > It addresses these industry abuses:
    >
    > - skipping the View layer in TDD
    > - testing the View thru a user-emulator (such as Watir!)
    > - writing the View code first, then testing it (a little!)
    >
    > The goal is new test cases drive new View features, without looking at or
    > driving the View too often.
    >
    > That is a tall hill to scale, hence the book is very dense. However, each
    > chapter and case study contains its own Best Practices that can be learned
    > alone, just by reading them.
    >
    > Work with the book inspired my subsequent research with RoR, including
    > assert{ 2.0 }, assert_xhtml{}, and assert_rjs_. An alternate Web chapter is
    > my O'Reilly paper on TDD for Ajax: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657
    >

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      Chet Hendrickson | 8 Apr 2010 17:04
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      Hello,

      I get the same on my windows machine.

      chet

      Thursday, April 8, 2010, 8:57:47 AM, you wrote:

      > Phlip,

      > Just so you know, the diagrams come out as black rectangles (sometimes
      > with labeled white rectangles on them) when viewed with Preview on my
      > Mac. I haven't tried reading on a different machine, yet.

      > - George

      > Phlip wrote:
      >> http://zeroplayer.com/tfui/TestFirstUserInterfaces.pdf
      >>
      >> It addresses these industry abuses:
      >>
      >> - skipping the View layer in TDD
      >> - testing the View thru a user-emulator (such as Watir!)
      >> - writing the View code first, then testing it (a little!)
      >>
      >> The goal is new test cases drive new View features, without looking at or
      >> driving the View too often.
      >>
      >> That is a tall hill to scale, hence the book is very dense. However, each
      >> chapter and case study contains its own Best Practices that can be learned
      >> alone, just by reading them.
      >>
      >> Work with the book inspired my subsequent research with RoR, including
      >> assert{ 2.0 }, assert_xhtml{}, and assert_rjs_. An alternate Web chapter is
      >> my O'Reilly paper on TDD for Ajax: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657
      >>

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        Lundak, Jiri | 8 Apr 2010 17:21
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        Hi,

        Same here with OpenSuse Linux.

        Cheers.
        Jiri

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        Hello,

        I get the same on my windows machine.

        chet

        Thursday, April 8, 2010, 8:57:47 AM, you wrote:

        > Phlip,

        > Just so you know, the diagrams come out as black rectangles (sometimes
        > with labeled white rectangles on them) when viewed with Preview on my
        > Mac. I haven't tried reading on a different machine, yet.

        > - George

        > Phlip wrote:
        >> http://zeroplayer.com/tfui/TestFirstUserInterfaces.pdf
        >>
        >> It addresses these industry abuses:
        >>
        >> - skipping the View layer in TDD
        >> - testing the View thru a user-emulator (such as Watir!)
        >> - writing the View code first, then testing it (a little!)
        >>
        >> The goal is new test cases drive new View features, without looking at or
        >> driving the View too often.
        >>
        >> That is a tall hill to scale, hence the book is very dense. However, each
        >> chapter and case study contains its own Best Practices that can be learned
        >> alone, just by reading them.
        >>
        >> Work with the book inspired my subsequent research with RoR, including
        >> assert{ 2.0 }, assert_xhtml{}, and assert_rjs_. An alternate Web chapter is
        >> my O'Reilly paper on TDD for Ajax: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657
        >>

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          Phlip | 8 Apr 2010 18:17
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          oy nobody likes SVG->PS! I will run it thru an alternate translator &
          repost. (Oh, and _check_ it on those platforms!)

          Also I could bust them down to rasters; they were, of course, ready to
          be used as mechanicals!

          > > Just so you know, the diagrams come out as black rectangles (sometimes
          > > with labeled white rectangles on them) when viewed with Preview on my
          > > Mac. I haven't tried reading on a different machine, yet.

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            George Dinwiddie | 8 Apr 2010 19:56
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            And here I thought you were just testing to see if people read it or
            not. ;-)

            Phlip wrote:
            > oy nobody likes SVG->PS! I will run it thru an alternate translator &
            > repost. (Oh, and _check_ it on those platforms!)
            >
            > Also I could bust them down to rasters; they were, of course, ready to
            > be used as mechanicals!
            >
            >>> Just so you know, the diagrams come out as black rectangles (sometimes
            >>> with labeled white rectangles on them) when viewed with Preview on my
            >>> Mac. I haven't tried reading on a different machine, yet.

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