There are huge amounts of data around us that we could use to better understand the world. Every company collects large amounts of data about their sales or customers. Governments and international organizations increasingly release interesting data sets to the public through various open government data initiatives (data.gov or data.gov.uk). But raw data does not tell you much. An interesting recent development is data journalism. Data journalists tell stories using data. A data driven article is base[...]

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Fol­low­ing on from the last post, we will look at the Pipeline style today.   Style 5 – Pipeline Although Crista has called this the

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Fol­low­ing on from the last post, we will look at the Cookbook style today.   Style 4 – Cookbook Although Crista has called this the

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Fol­low­ing on from the last post, we will look at the Monolith style today.   Style 3 – Monolith As the name suggests, this style

There are three rules applicable to all testing environments.  I’ve articulated one of the rules before but now I’ll add two more. Rule 1 – Dead Simple Tests must be dead simple to run.  It doesn’t matter what you’re testing.  It doesn’t matter if you’ve got 100% code coverage. It doesn’t matter if you’ve tested […]