Category Archives: TDiOSD

I use mocks and I’m happy with that

Posted on 2014-05-21 by Graham

Both Kent Beck and Martin Fowler have said that they don’t use mock objects in their test-driven development. I do. I use them mostly for the sense described first in my BNR blog post on Mock Objects, namely to stand … Continue reading →

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An apology to readers of Test-Driven iOS Development

Posted on 2012-09-03 by Graham

I made a mistake. Not a typo or a bug in some pasted code (actually I’ve made some of those, too). I perpetuated what seems (now, since I analyse it) to be a big myth in software engineering. I uncritically … Continue reading →

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BrowseOverflow as a Code Kata

Posted on 2012-05-19 by Graham

This article was originally posted over at InformIT. My goal in writing Test-Driven iOS Development was to take readers from not knowing how to write a test for their iOS apps, to understanding the TDD workflow and how it could … Continue reading →

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The debugger of royalty

Posted on 2012-04-27 by Graham

We’ve all got little libraries of code or scripts that help us with debugging. Often these are for logging information in a particular way, or wrapping logs/tests such that they’re only invoked in Debug builds but not in production. Or … Continue reading →

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Test-Driven iOS Development

Posted on 2012-04-12 by Graham

Here it is, after more than a year in the making, the book that they really did want you to read! Test-driven IOS Development (Developer’s Library) (affiliate link) has finally hit the stores[*]. I wrote this book for the simple … Continue reading →

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