Tag: test-driven-design

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  To Boldly Test Where No One Has Gone Before

  
  February 15, 2019
  

  Lately, I’ve been reading a fresh crop of "TDD is terrible" posts. Here's my counter argument: Test Driven Development is "liberating." Here's how I use TDD as a design tool.

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  Wanted: Jaguar Priest

  
  July 7, 2017
  

  My job is to be the dumbest person in the room; I want to work with intelligent, opinionated people who can make the world a little better. Then iterate.

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  TDD Action Caching in Rails 3

  
  March 28, 2012
  

  On my current project, we needed to prove that an action cache was working as expected. Alas, the blogosphere had either out-of-date or unhelpful information. So, after many experiments, we came up with an RSpec test that does what we want. It seems ugly to me, and I hope there's a better way. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. Any resemblances to actual classes and methods are purely coincidental.