Comments on: The Summer of Bloated Software http://www.rylowry.com/blog/2006/05/25/wonderful-summer-and-bloated-software/ Solve two problems at once. Feed the homeless to the hungry. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:26:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: The Retrospector » Blog Archive » Commercial vs. Open Source: Another Point for Open Source http://www.rylowry.com/blog/2006/05/25/wonderful-summer-and-bloated-software/#comment-2 The Retrospector » Blog Archive » Commercial vs. Open Source: Another Point for Open Source Fri, 26 May 2006 13:51:33 +0000 http://www.rylowry.com/blog/2006/05/25/wonderful-summer-and-bloated-software/#comment-2 [...] I stumbled onto an article in Ry Lowry’s blog that included a piece about his frustration with applying test driven development (TDD) to a commercial framework. [...] […] I stumbled onto an article in Ry Lowry’s blog that included a piece about his frustration with applying test driven development (TDD) to a commercial framework. […]

]]> By: Jeff Wujk http://www.rylowry.com/blog/2006/05/25/wonderful-summer-and-bloated-software/#comment-3 Jeff Wujk Fri, 26 May 2006 18:57:56 +0000 http://www.rylowry.com/blog/2006/05/25/wonderful-summer-and-bloated-software/#comment-3 Commercial framework developers aren't thinking about testability yet. Neither are people who give them recommendations about "good practice." One of the worst things framework developers do is use final and sealed all over the place. This blog talks about the problem. http://blogs.objectmentor.com/ArticleS.MichaelFeathers.ItsTimeToDeprecateFinal Commercial framework developers aren’t thinking about testability yet. Neither are people who give them recommendations about “good practice.”

One of the worst things framework developers do is use final and sealed all over the place. This blog talks about the problem.

http://blogs.objectmentor.com/ArticleS.MichaelFeathers.ItsTimeToDeprecateFinal

]]> By: Ry’s Blog » Open Source: The “Just-Do-It-Yourself” Argument http://www.rylowry.com/blog/2006/05/25/wonderful-summer-and-bloated-software/#comment-7 Ry’s Blog » Open Source: The “Just-Do-It-Yourself” Argument Wed, 31 May 2006 06:05:27 +0000 http://www.rylowry.com/blog/2006/05/25/wonderful-summer-and-bloated-software/#comment-7 [...] A few of my fellow developers and I were recently tasked with bolstering the test suite which runs against our commercial framework. As I discussed in part two of The Summer of Bloated Software, HttpUnit, one of our shop’s favorite tools for testing, simply could not do the job due to the unusual way in which our commercial framework generated form fields. This meant that several important use cases could not be tested with HttpUnit, and that we were going to have to have someone manually test them. [...] […] A few of my fellow developers and I were recently tasked with bolstering the test suite which runs against our commercial framework. As I discussed in part two of The Summer of Bloated Software, HttpUnit, one of our shop’s favorite tools for testing, simply could not do the job due to the unusual way in which our commercial framework generated form fields. This meant that several important use cases could not be tested with HttpUnit, and that we were going to have to have someone manually test them. […]

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