Reality Loop

May 27, 2010
BDD Antipattern: Business readable but no business involved

Marcus blogged about using ATDD in projects of rewriting legacy applications. He describes the problem of missing business involvement in those kind of projects.He describes a possible approach for a project like this and a technical setup how to ...
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May 25, 2010
ATDD for rewriting a legacy application

In my recent interview with Gojko for his upcoming book, I mentioned that I was not sure if the process of specification by example that is promoted by ATDD makes sense in the case of rewriting a legacy application. In this scenario the referenc...
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May 24, 2010
Our BDD workshops at SkillsMatter Progressive .NET Tutorials

Last week Gaspar and I held two workshops at the Skillsmatter Progressive .Net Tutorials in London:Gaspar and Christian have each written a summary here and here.Altogether I think the workshops were quite successful and the feedback from the aud...
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April 30, 2010
Speaking at Skillsmatter Progressive .Net Tutorials in London

Gojko and Wendy invited Gaspar and me to give two workshops at the Skillsmatter Progressive .Net Tutorials on May 12-14 in London. In the first workshop on Thursday we will demonstrate how to drive the development of an ASP.NET MVC2 application...
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April 28, 2010
Eclipse on OSX Quick-Tip: Access Restriction Error

I have repeatedly come across this problem with Maven, Eclipse and e2eclipse on OSX: After importing the Maven project into eclipse, I am getting a lot of the following errors: Access restriction: The type Resource is not accessible due to res...
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