Ziobrando's Lair

Like it or not, David Heinemeier Hanson did it. By starting the debate around the “Is TDD Dead” topic, he forced the whole agile community t...

I was reading this nice post about Continuous Integration , from Distilled Brilliance, by John Feminella (thanks to Marco Abis for pointing...

Assuming that we've created our test object in a few moves (please read the previous post about it), now the focus switches to the way ...

In the last posts about testing in a TDD fashion, I tried to dig into the reasons why many developers tend to write Soap Opera tests which ...

In the previous post I presented an example of what I call the Soap Opera Test Antipattern, and some possible side-effects like having tes...

If you are coming from a romantic programmer attitude, or simply didn't care about testing your code, then every single line of tests c...

Some days ago, I was watching this video on InfoQ , where James Coplien and Robert C. Martin were discussing about some undesired side effec...

Quite often, while introducing quality assurance, testing and TDD with our customer or colleagues, I get some weird responses… something lik...

I was drowning into the abyss of the Italian bureaucracy in the last few days, going from an office to another one to fetch the papers neede...

Stressing on test activities is part of my usual job as a consultant. Sometimes we can push till the test first practice as recommended by X...