Re: [TFUI] The TFUI Principles

From: "Brian Marick" 
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To: "[email protected]" 
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Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [TFUI] The TFUI Principles


>
>
> On Feb 6, 2005, at 5:52 AM, yahoogroups-1e+8sjoZAN9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:
>> A couple of weeks ago I came up with an
>> interesting insight. If you drive the UI with
>> FIT, and relentlessly remove all duplication
>> from both the FIT tests and the GUI, then
>> you ought to get the separation of
>> function that everyone has been advocating
>> for years.
>
> I've not seen that, but I've seen something similar when using Fit to
> drive below the GUI.
>
> Semi-specifically: I was working with someone writing some too-hard
> fixture code. I said, "Wait a minute. The GUI needs the same
> information. How does it do this?" We scooted over to the GUI guy and
> asked. He had duplicated what we were doing. Since this was furthermore
> a bigtime violation of the Law of Demeter, we'd found something that
> needed to be pushed down a level. Voila: thinner GUI.

Actually, that's exactly what I was thinking; I guess I
gave the wrong impression with what I said. The
interesting thing here is that no one was actually
looking for duplication between the FIT fixtures
and the GUI code, so the duplicaton wouldn't have
been found except that you ran into a problem.

John Roth

>
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