Here is a link to an article about test driven development http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html. This is a very high level look at TDD rather than being specific to how it is done in Java, I am sure a quic search would find a more Java based one. I chose this one because I felt it was very clear on the actual ideas of TDD rather than getting bogged down with specific implementations.
Michael Whapples On 06/12/10 04:45, John J. Boyer wrote:
Thanks for the link. I just put a texts directory iin my srcdirectory. I'm totally unfamiliar with test-driven development, so I'll take a look. Any tutorials? I'm still working on localization. In fact, I have a stub of a class called LocaleHandler which has the methods setLocale, getLocale and localValue This class should be imported into everything else, so people get in the habit of calling localValue with a key innstead of just asigning a string. I think that localization would be a really good candidate for test-driven development. It has to be working from the beginning. John On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:32:36AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:Good to hear that you've got it working. A quick search did reveal a tutorial providing the information on how to get ant to make a jar file run with the java -jar command, see http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorials.html and look at the hello world tutorial. I gave the general tutorials link incase the others are useful. Now I know what you might think when I say this, but have yu got junit tests working? I do feel junit tests are particularly useful and I would agree with the idea of test driven development where you write the tests first and then write the code which meets the criteria in the tests. Michael Whapples On 05/12/10 07:11, John J. Boyer wrote:After looking fruitlessly in the ant manual I looked at ant's own build.xml. It turned out that I simply had to specify the class with the main method in an attribute tag under the manivest tag under the jar tag. Now the code runs and gives the runtime error I expect. I hope to have another draft on Monday. Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! John
