Thanks for the article. It will be interesting to learn about this technique. John On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:27:53PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > 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 > >>> > -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities