[TFUI] My book on TDD for Views is available online

[Phlip]

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

[George Dinwiddie]

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

Post by Phlip
http://zeroplayer.com/tfui/TestFirstUserInterfaces.pdf
- 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

[Chet Hendrickson]

Hello,

I get the same on my windows machine.

chet

Post by George Dinwiddie
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

Post by Phlip
http://zeroplayer.com/tfui/TestFirstUserInterfaces.pdf
- 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

[Lundak, Jiri]

Hi,

Same here with OpenSuse Linux.

Cheers.
Jiri

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Hello,

I get the same on my windows machine.

chet

Post by George Dinwiddie
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

Post by Phlip
http://zeroplayer.com/tfui/TestFirstUserInterfaces.pdf
- 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]

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!

Post by George Dinwiddie
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.

--
 Phlip
 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand

[George Dinwiddie]

And here I thought you were just testing to see if people read it or
not. ;-)

Post by Phlip
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!

Post by George Dinwiddie
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.