automated tests

I have been working with Node.js for almost 6 years now (started back in 2012 with 0.6.10). During these years, co-workers have been asking me the same question over and over again: "What does your application look like?". It is now time to answer this question (or at least try to) !

In most iOS apps, as app developers, we pay a very special attention to the user interface. For example, we try to perfectly implement the graphical design as proposed by the designer. But on the other hand, we pay very little attention to the other parts of the app such as the the data management or the network layer. In this article, I will explain why, during my last project, as we were trying to improve the unit tests of our network calls, we decided…

This is the story of a team. A bunch of 11 aspiring software craftsmen who decided to change things around and get their job done in a better way. The story takes place between the 30th and the 50th iteration of the development process of a software. This software is a website serving over 2 million regular users and providing legal information and services to 65 million French citizens. Chapter one: Start from what hurts and set a direction Leaky pipeline It is normal that…

span.code { font-family: monospace; font-size: 1.2em; } This article is about testing private methods in android. This is a fairly common problem in android (even in Java at large) and can be solved easily. The technique proposed here provides the additionnal benefit of using a traditional way of solving the problem in the Java world. (suspense :) ) Using the android platform, you are used to divide your application into two projects : one for the main source code of your application, one for the tests

MVVM is a quite mature design pattern one can use with the microsoft WPF framework, or with Silverlight. You'll find a lot of literature and tools on the web to start a new development with this pattern. In this article, we show how MVVM can be implemented for a quite large application, and the value it brings in a Behavior Driven Development approach.