[brailleblaster] Re: The source code runs.

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:27:11 -0600

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


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