December 28, 2004
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Classics
These questions were recently asked on the XP group, in the context of a review of Mike Cohn’s User Stories Applied. The answers are a function of the whole project, not just User Stories.
December 27, 2004
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Articles
Based on a suggestion, I’m going to build the BowlingGame in yet another way: based on a Stream concept. This will be more fun for me than what I should be doing: I hope it’s the same for you.
December 25, 2004
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Articles
A famous author also refreshing his Smalltalk proposes a single method solution. Going where no man dares to tread, I’m going to try to refactor it into the style I consider to be “good”. You decide.
December 22, 2004
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Articles
I had this cool idea for another way for Bowling to work. I’m snowed in, so I tried it. The results were good … and very thought-provoking.
December 22, 2004
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Articles
Some discussion of style triggered by reader input. Then on to another “improvement”, followed by discussion of whether it’s an improvement, and why we did it.
December 21, 2004
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Articles
Let’s try some more incremental improvement to the objects. Meanwhile, some people think I’m taking bites that are too big. Let’s think about that as well.
December 20, 2004
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Articles
Let’s reflect a bit on the Smalltalk bowling experiment so far. And then … I’ve got an idea!
December 19, 2004
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Articles
In the previous article, we made our first test run, and sketched a bit about how Smalltalk helps us. Let’s make some more tests run.
At the Agile Developer Skills course at the Raikes School, I commented that we don’t usually test accessors. But we test everything. Is this a contradiction?
Jon Bettinger has found a failing test! Excellent!
I’ve been working with Scala a bit, just to learn what it is. I’ve found it interesting, if frustrating. Here is a bowling experiment.