Objects exposing behavior, not state
Controlling complexity of your codebase by limiting what state your objects expose
The more objects that can see and change states on other objects, the more complex your system. Objects returning a boolean mean that someone calling that method will use an if branch, returning an integer would mean someone using if/else [...]
I spend more time reading code than writing it. I therefore like code that is readable. Rarely do I like to read code that is verbose and does too much orchestration in order to do something that is orthognal to what I’m looking for.
Code is easier to read and maintain when objects are written in [...]
I am often asked this rather perilous question:
How do I view code coverage for my functional tests?
Short answer:
Here’s how…. However, use it only for figuring out what functionality is not covered, not as a workaround for not having enough unit and integrations.
Having to use functional tests to determine percentage of code coverage is IMO a [...]
August 4, 2009 - 7:50 am
Tags: eclipse, gef, swtbot
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A long pending request from swtbot users has been support for GEF. The SWTBot4GEF project was created as a sandbox to see how feasible things were in the GEF world.
Mariot Chauvin recently polished the initial contribution from David Green and released a version 0.1 of the gef support. We’re working towards integrating this as part [...]
July 15, 2009 - 12:04 am
Tags: eclipse
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… and just wanted to see all the parts are still moving.
June 19, 2009 - 11:40 am
Tags: eclipse, swtbot
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… and move to newer dope…
I just realized that I had about 58 eclipse SDKs downloaded on my hard drive and 22 instances of different versions of eclipse. That was a whooping 9GB for the sdk downloads and 6.5GB for the extracted versions. Time to move to newer dope
Similar was the case on [...]
June 8, 2009 - 8:37 am
Tags: democamp, eclipse, galileo
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A reminder to those following Planet Eclipse that there’s a Galileo DemoCamp in Pune on Saturday, 13th June 2009. Sign up on the wiki page so that the ThoughtWorks Pune office is stuffed with enough food to feed you
An Eclipse DemoCamp is a congregation of Eclipse enthusiasts to meet up and demo what [...]
June 3, 2009 - 3:56 pm
Tags: eclipse, p2
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There’s a joke about maven downloading half the internet. Apparently p2 talks to the other half maven does not download.
Earlier you’d go get a coffee every time you clicked the eclipse update manager. With the eclipse servers taking a beating and download speeds really going slow you better grab lunch.
But wait there’s another nifty “hack”: [...]
May 29, 2009 - 6:04 pm
Tags: eclipse, swt, swtbot
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You can download the latest and greatest from the SWTBot download page.
A listing of some of the new features available:
Bug 263036 – SWTBot finally has an icon that was missing since two years!
Bug 269919 – Added support for toggle buttons
Bug 271246 – Better support for handling editors. This should serve as a good start towards [...]
May 25, 2009 - 3:33 pm
Tags: eclipse, Java
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Monday morning excitement. JUnit tests that pass in the IDE fail in ant and cruise servers running on all platforms.
java.lang.AssertionError:
Expected: a string containing “… text=Ç…”
got: “… text=Å…”
My immediate reaction was the encoding used by the JVM. Setting the “file.encoding” system property to UTF-8 did not help. Running the ant based [...]
August 6, 2009 - 8:39 pm
Hey Ketan,
Many thanks for the video – with it, I was finally able to get a headless test running! One thing that blocked me for a bit was that I missed that these are the he supported values for os, ws (workspace) and arch:
os: win32/linux/macosx
ws: win32/wpf/gtk/cocoa/carbon
arch: x86/x86_64
But – it’s working now.
Question for you – as I’m hoping to make extensive use of SWTBot – what are your future plans – and release version plans – for the project?
Thanks again,
Len D.
August 7, 2009 - 1:51 am
@len,
Short answer: no plans for the future. SWTBot goes where you want it to
October 24, 2009 - 10:23 am
Hi Ketan, thanks for the good work man…
At the end of your tutorial video “UI tests in a headless build” when you did ls command i saw 2 files in there: build.xml and runBotTest.bat. Can you please show me the content of runBotTest.xml?
When i execute ant command (MS windows) i am getting error: ‘ant’ is not recogonized as internal or external command….
October 24, 2009 - 11:15 am
@Achille,
You can download ant from http://ant.apache.org. The batch file is one line that contains:
$ANT_HOME\bin\ant.bat -f build.xml