We met last night for the first Book Club, I think It went pretty well. I know I really enjoyed it.
We are reading The Art of Unit Testing ( by Roy Osherove) this is the review for chapter one.
We talked about the importance of testing , the importance of differentiating between Integration Tests and Unit Tests and perhaps realised that there is a very important place for Integration tests in our process.
We were also talking about TDD by Example (K. Beck) and how both books together can help first to learn how to unit test and then to write better tests.
On Integration Test again we talked about Fit(nesse) StoryTeller, cucumber and we came to mention NDepend somehow (I cant remember how, but I can remember someone asking for links so here you go).
I think we are all in the right track seeing tests as a way to achieve quality , we know what is the purist approach but I think none of us were afraid to say well, actually that will take more time that doing something in a pragmatic way.
A typical example of this will be the XML Parser, a purist will have the xml in a string , a more pragmatic approach is to have a file close to the Test assembly, the drawback of this is that you are then creating a dependency on the IO operation and testing the IO which is not a good idea, also you are creating a dependency on the file .
Next Meetup
We also realised that one chapter was a bit to little, so next meetup its chapter 2 and 3. Another change we introduced is that we are meeting on Monday as it suits all the ones that were there a bit better.
(Apologies for the edit but the post was a bit unreadable had to edit)
