I really should have done this a long time ago, but you know how it goes. Anyway, if you're using metric_fu and have a question or want to discuss it's direction/development you can now here: http://groups.google.com/group/metric_fuThere's some big changes on the horizon for metric_fu -- If you want to get a preview, head over to github and...

I really should have done this a long time ago, but you know how it goes. Anyway, if you're using metric_fu and have a question or want to discuss it's direction/development you can now here: http://groups.google.com/group/metric_fuThere's some big changes on the horizon for metric_fu -- If you want to get a preview, head over to github and...

I spent the weekend at Citcon (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference) in Minneapolis. Citcon (which is pronounced Kitcon -- because it sounds cooler) is an open spaces conference which means that there are no scheduled talks. The people who show up propose ideas and then they vote on what they want to see. It sounds like it would never...

I spent the weekend at Citcon (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference) in Minneapolis. Citcon (which is pronounced Kitcon -- because it sounds cooler) is an open spaces conference which means that there are no scheduled talks. The people who show up propose ideas and then they vote on what they want to see. It sounds like it would never...

My new talk "What's the Right Level of Testing?" got accepted for the Agile 2009 conference happening late August in Chicago. I'm pretty excited to be going -- the last time I was there it was called XPAU (eXtreme Programming Agile Universe).

My new talk "What's the Right Level of Testing?" got accepted for the Agile 2009 conference happening late August in Chicago. I'm pretty excited to be going -- the last time I was there it was called XPAU (eXtreme Programming Agile Universe).

So yesterday Leah and I were working on SudokuScanner -- a cool little site that will, when it's released, allow you to upload images of Sudoku boards and get a solution. All of a sudden, our mocks and stubs went totally batshit. One minute she and I were happily writing some tests, making them pass, refactoring, checking in, etc... and then,...

So yesterday Leah and I were working on SudokuScanner -- a cool little site that will, when it's released, allow you to upload images of Sudoku boards and get a solution. All of a sudden, our mocks and stubs went totally batshit. One minute she and I were happily writing some tests, making them pass, refactoring, checking in, etc... and then,...

Day Five of the Craftsmanship Swap:Last day!Today started off with some more work on a soon to be released 8th Light project that will hopefully make them some money. Colin and I had a good time blowing up the app and making sure a notification email gets sent out using Exception Notifier. Later on, at a retrospective, Paul asked me if I...

Day Five of the Craftsmanship Swap:Last day!Today started off with some more work on a soon to be released 8th Light project that will hopefully make them some money. Colin and I had a good time blowing up the app and making sure a notification email gets sent out using Exception Notifier. Later on, at a retrospective, Paul asked me if I...

Day Four of the Craftsmanship Swap:Today started with Eric Smith and I working an iPhone version of Conway’s Game of Life trying to be as test first as possible. It was... Painful. I've been spoiled by my time with Ruby into expecting first class testing/mocking/stubbing. Even working with a guy who's given talks on how to test drive iPhone...

Day Four of the Craftsmanship Swap:Today started with Eric Smith and I working an iPhone version of Conway’s Game of Life trying to be as test first as possible. It was... Painful. I've been spoiled by my time with Ruby into expecting first class testing/mocking/stubbing. Even working with a guy who's given talks on how to test drive iPhone...

Day Three of the Craftsmanship Swap:Micah and Paul had to head out of town for an Iteration Planning Meeting/Demo so it was just Colin Jones, Eric Meyer, and I in the office. We decided to do some tri-ping pong development on an internal product 8th Light is planning to release soon. So Eric would write a test/spec, I'd make it pass and write...

Day Three of the Craftsmanship Swap:Micah and Paul had to head out of town for an Iteration Planning Meeting/Demo so it was just Colin Jones, Eric Meyer, and I in the office. We decided to do some tri-ping pong development on an internal product 8th Light is planning to release soon. So Eric would write a test/spec, I'd make it pass and write...

Day Two of the Craftsmanship Swap:The day started off with a bit of work on slim for C with Doug Bradbury. Slim is a replacement for Fit which underlies Fitnesse and you need to write one for every language you plan to use FitNesse on. I gave it my best shot , but then Uncle Bob (Bob Martin - father of 8th Light founder Micah Martin) and James...