Gunjan Doshi

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Entries from December 27th, 2004

Off to Bangalore to facilitate a Extreme Programming Workshop

December 27th, 2004 No Comments

I am leaving tommorrow for Bangalore to facilitate a 5 day Extreme programming workshop through Cutter Consortium. The workshop will be followed with a week of coaching.
Workshop is for a offshore partner of the company I coached in Toronto. Other coaches on this project were Mike Hill and Jim Shore. Joshua Kerievsky oversaw the [...]

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Sample NAnt file with NUnit, NAnt & Fit integration

December 22nd, 2004 No Comments

Here is a sample NAnt build file
that runs all of the NUnit tests, runs code coverage using NCover & runs all the Fit acceptance tests. I removed the values from the properties, so that you can write your own.
I had to use a for loop in the script to run all the acceptance [...]

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Extreme - rapid prototyping

December 16th, 2004 No Comments

I am thrilled these days. I am helping this really cool innovation company. They are very much like Ideo but with focus on Marketing. My team has to often prototype some concepts under tight deadlines.
A case in hand: the team started working on Monday for a prototype to be delivered on Thursday. This [...]

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Continuous integration complete!

December 8th, 2004 No Comments

As I said in previous blogs, I am helping a team that is developing a multi-media product for cell phones. Our continuous integration step involves updating the code, running the tests, testing the application in an emulator, committing the changes and announcing.
Yesterday, we decided to explore a new GUI framework called J2MEPolish. We liked [...]

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Ward’s plain advise

December 6th, 2004 No Comments

Ward Cunningham in his interview was asked, if he has any advise for a young programmer who inspires to become a great programmer?
Ward reply “One of the hardest things to pick up I think is that the way to grab hold of the really good ideas. There are a lot of ideas, but really [...]

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Number of asserts per test - Single Claim Principle

December 4th, 2004 No Comments

How many asserts can I have per test? Multiple? Only one?
I feel that the number of asserts per test is not the goal. Goal is to use test-driven development to generate value producing simple code. To achieve that goal, if I have to use multiple asserts per test, I am ok with it.
Ward Cunningham originally [...]

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