Re: [testdrivendevelopment] "bottom-up" TDD and common behaviors

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Best to test to behaviour, not implementation/capability, I think.

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On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 2:33 PM Ron Jeffries <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I was thinking I'd ask the object if it had updatable fields, but it'd
> depend on an understanding of the problem and solution that I don't
> presently have.
>
> On Dec 2, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Alan Baljeu via Groups.Io <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> The way I test if animals have updatable fields, I try to update a field
> and check that it updated.
>
>
>
> Ron Jeffries
> ronjeffries.com
> If another does not intend offense, it is wrong for me to seek it;
> if another does indeed intend offense, it is foolish for me to permit it.
>   -- Kelly Easterley
>
> 
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Best to test to behaviour, not implementation/capability, =
I think.<div><br clear=3D"all"><div><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signatu=
re" data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature">brought to you by the letters A, V, =
and I<br>and the number 47</div></div><br></div></div><br><div class=3D"gma=
il_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 2:33=
 PM Ron Jeffries &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">ronjeffrie=
[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" st=
yle=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padd=
ing-left:1ex"><div style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word;">I was thinking I&#3=
9;d ask the object if it had updatable fields, but it&#39;d depend on an un=
derstanding of the problem and solution that I don&#39;t presently have.<br=
><div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>On Dec 2, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Alan B=
aljeu via Groups.Io &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]"=
 target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br=
><div><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial=
,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-=
weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-t=
ransform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;floa=
t:none;display:inline">The way I test if animals have updatable fields, I t=
ry to update a field and check that it updated.</span></div></blockquote></=
div><br><div>
<div style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text=
-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div s=
tyle=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent=
:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style=
=3D"border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;letter-s=
pacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;te=
xt-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-spacing:0px"><=
div style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style=3D"border-collapse:sep=
arate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-heigh=
t:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-=
space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-spacing:0px"><div><br>Ron Jeffries</di=
v><div><a href=3D"http://ronjeffries.com" target=3D"_blank">ronjeffries.com=
</a></div><div><div><div>If another does not intend offense, it is wrong fo=
r me to seek it;</div><div>if another does indeed intend offense, it is foo=
lish for me to permit it.</div><div>=C2=A0 -- Kelly Easterley</div></div></=
div></span></div></span></div></div>
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