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Title: Test Driven Development: A Practical Guide by David Astels ISBN: 0-13-101649-0 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 10 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Finally, not just another book about web applications!
Comment: Dave's book does one thing that most other books in this field do not do: it avoids the web application. Hallelujah!
This book provides a good foundation for understanding TDD: the programming cycle, refactoring, tools, mock objects... it is possible to begin applying TDD for yourself after reading the first 1/3 or so of this book.
Writing effectively about programming sessions is not easy. Only a few authors can do it well, and Dave does an admirable job in this. My only beef with the case study (which makes up the bulk of the book) is that, after a while, it becomes somewhat repetitive. This isn't Dave's fault: it's the nature of programming. Sometimes we just need to add another button or another text field. We don't necessarily learn anything new doing it, but if we want a finished product, we have to do it. I understand Dave's desire to present a complete (if small) project, and so applaud his willingness to risk some duplication in the name of finishing what he started.
The experience of learning from this book is similar to learning from real project experience: not every page contains something new and exciting, but if you follow along and ask questions (of yourself), then you will have learned a great deal by the end.
Rating: 4
Summary: TDD with some UI examples!
Comment: The single best thing that distinguishes this book from the other TDD books on the market is its effort to produce a believable application during the course of using TDD. It even showed a way of unit testing GUI applications, which is easily the hardest thing in-practice about TDD.
On the bad side, some nicer abstractions around the UI and any patters he'd come up with to make UI TDD better would've been a great takeaway. Also, he said that he'd be using Smalltalk-style names because that was what it was familiar with, which is totally bogus. The book should be written for the reader, not for the writer -- if he was that attached to and unwilling to give up Smalltalk, then why write it using Java?
Rating: 5
Summary: Mock object frameworks explained
Comment: For the first time I now understand the following mock object related frameworks,
- Mock Objects Framework
- Mock Maker
- Easy Mock
Alone, the chapter that explained these frameworks was well worth the purchase price of the book.
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Title: Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck ISBN: 0321146530 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 08 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Unit Testing in Java: How Tests Drive the Code by Johannes Link, Peter Fröhlich ISBN: 1558608680 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: JUnit in Action by Vincent Massol, Ted Husted ISBN: 1930110995 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Testing Extreme Programming by Lisa Crispin, Tip House ISBN: 0321113551 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 25 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Refactoring Workbook by William C. Wake ISBN: 0321109295 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 22 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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