Doubling Down on Isolation Testing 4.15 http://spkr8.com/t/3248

Description:

Test doubles (stubs, mocks, fakes, spies, etc, etc) can be effective tools for specifying and testing the behavior of objects in isolation. They can also be confusing and misleading when used carelessly or inappropriately. This talk will empower you with a better understanding of different kinds of test doubles and the jobs for which they are intended.

Comments on this Talk

Stream.2993 saleem, 15 May 03:41 PM

Positives

  • Excellent presentation skills -- intonation, humor, style.
  • Excellent content; while I knew most of the concrete things mentioned in the slides, the way David tied ideas together and distilled them at the end into succinct recommendations.

Room for Improvement

  • Not much! I would be very interested in seeing if David could evolve this talk into a secondary talk about "whence to use Mocks, Stubs and other Charlatans/Doubles". :-)

Marina_city John McCaffrey, 15 May 05:09 PM

I liked the presentation, and the simplification of testing approaches, but kept thinking that I already knew a lot of it.

It might be that for this crowd we might have needed a different angle, maybe a common problem, or something that we all felt we needed. (I think that's a challenge for any testing talk, as lots of people feel like they don't NEED any things else)

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4 Ratings: 4.15

Delivery: 4.00

Content: 4.30

Time & Location

May 15, 2010 — 09:50 AM
ThoughtWorks - AON Center, 200 E. Randolph St. 25th Floor, Chicago, IL  (Map It)