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The purpose of test-driven development (TDD)

March 24th, 2010
Posted in Development
By Manuel Küblböck

Most test-driven development (TDD) advocates claim that TDD generates well designed code. I think this thesis is in essence true, but conceals some conditions and intermediate steps. The direct outcome of test-driven development is not a design, but testable code and tests that enable refactoring. Testable code Testable objects usually have their dependencies injected and [ READ MORE ]

Automatic hashcode method generation

March 11th, 2010
Posted in Development
By Manuel Küblböck

When reading the book Implementation Patterns on the bus to work one morning I came across a section that talks about implementing the equals and hashcode methods in Java. I don’t know how often I have read this rule by now: “If you implement equals you also have to implement hashcode“. Otherwise you get into [ READ MORE ]

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Formal structure can produce compliance, but it can never produce value (The 3 Structures of an Organisation, BetaCodex Network)

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