java Is Java Dead? The answer is: of course not!!, but now that I got your attention surely due to the title that mimics the lately hot "Is TDD Dead?" discussion started by @dhh, I
10 Pines, una empresa diferente Hace unos años atrás cuando nos juntamos para formar 10Pines teníamos muchas dudas sobre lo que pasaría, sobre cómo nos iría, sobre la factibilidad de hacerlo, dudas lógicas de cualquier emprendimiento y cambio.
object-design Language’s type system and their impact in breaking dependencies One of the things that makes TDD difficult to apply on existing code (or just “legacy code”) is the dependencies that the object subject to test may have. The more “dependencies” the object
naming The Art of Naming Today we all know now that variables should not be called x or y, not even i nor n when we use the famous “for”... but do you know why? have you had
naming About names when designing with objects One of the recurrent problems I see when teaching OO design is the “names” used by the programmers to name classes, methods, etc. The problems are different depending if attendees are from the
esug-2010 Design principles behind Patagonia - ESUG 2010 Patagonia is a conference registration web based system written in Pharo using Seaside, whose main purpose is to fulfill the ESUG conference registration needs. It was developed at 10Pines under the sponsorship of
esug-2010 OOSCM: Object Oriented SCM - Beyond files - ESUG 2010 OOSCM (Object Oriented Software Configuration Management) is a tool we are developing to better support traits that are unique to object oriented development. Current SCM tools (CVS,SVN,GIT,Monticello, etc) are file
testing Mutation testing During the 70s, mutation testing emerged as a technique to assess the fault-finding effectiveness of a test suite. It works mutating objects behavior and looking for tests to “kill” those mutants. The surviving
object-design About inheritance as means of reuse When talking about Smalltalk, there is definitively an over use on the possibility to add messages to Object class. It is so easy to do it, that people usually do it just to
