Comments on: How I’m Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

By: admin

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:42:08 +0000

@Jeff – Great idea! As I said, I soon stopped using White and used the UI Automation stuff directly which turned out to be just as easy, and far more complete. I don’t know if White has improved since then.
As for specific patterns, my tests are still very much a work in progress but I suppose a couple are starting to appear. Maybe I should do a blog post on that, but I’m getting a backlog already…

By: Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:13:56 +0000

Nifty!

I would be interested in your experience writing acceptance tests with White such as patterns you have developed. Specifically, I may be writing a bunch of acceptance tests in the near future for Gallio’s Visual Studio and ReSharper extensions.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:53:42 +0000

I soon moved away from White because it was incomplete at the time, which meant that I had to use the AutomationElements directly in some cases. This turned out to be just as easy as using White

By: Will

Will — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:49:54 +0000

I’ve been meaning to buy this book after seeing a few people enthuse about it on twitter. Thanks for the review.

Also, never heard of White before. It looks pretty slick and it might solve some problems we have at work

By: Steve Freeman

Steve Freeman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:24:34 +0000

Thanks for the comments. Things do tend to go slowly at the beginning because writing the test flushes out so many issues, but then everything’s in place to make progress.

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By: Pete Hodgson

Pete Hodgson — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:51:04 +0000

I’m reading GOOS at the moment, and really loving it. Nice to hear a positive story from someone in the Real World trying this stuff out. Thanks for sharing.