Test-First - Tag - In a past life…

A Word Cookies Worksheet App

J. Timothy King — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:37:58 +0000

My girlfriend and I like to play a word-search game called Word Cookies!®, by BitMango. The game presents a collection of letters and an empty list of words of various lengths. It's your job to assemble the available letters into dictionary words that fill in the blanks. On the screen, the words are ordered by length and then alphabetically, with one exception: the biggest word (usually that uses all the available letters) is displayed at top of the screen.

The game also has a Daily Puzzle, which adds an additional challenge: The game chooses a word randomly, and you need to guess that particular word, in that particular slot in the list, in order to get points. To solve these puzzles, it's not enough just to guess any word in the puzzle. You need to guess the exact word the game has randomly chosen.

Reason #2 Why We Write Unit Tests

J. Timothy King — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:00:46 +0000

Seen on DamnLOL…

Ninety-nine little bugs in the code, Ninety-nine little bugs! You take one down, patch it around, A hundred and seventeen bugs in the code!

Twelve Benefits of Writing Unit Tests First

J. Timothy King — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:09:05 +0000

Why do programmers hate writing unit tests? Why do they hate even more writing unit tests before coding? You don’t have to answer. I’ve already heard the excuses. These are rhetorical questions. I have a theory, however, what the real reasons are.

Manual Test-First

J. Timothy King — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:53:06 +0000

Working on a team that’s not yet onto the value of unit testing, I frequently encounter what Michael Feathers calls “legacy code.” It is not unit-tested and can’t be. That doesn’t mean I need to forget test-first.