Re: TDD/BDD testing methodologies?

FROM : Andreas Monitzer
DATE : Mon Jun 09 19:43:26 2008

On Jun 09, 2008, at 15:34, David Troy wrote:

> Part of the kool-aid in Ruby land is test-driven and behavior driven 
> development practices (TDD/BDD).
>
> To go from that approach, where you generally start writing tests 
> and specs before you start writing code, to Cocoa, where I get a lot 
> of OO goodness and similarities to Ruby, but also plenty of 
> opportunities to shoot myself with null pointers, etc, gives me a 
> bit of whiplash.
>
> While I am pretty comfortable with C and the kind of precautions 
> that environment mandates, I wondered if anyone had any suggestions 
> about how to apply any TDD/BDD methodologies to their ObjC 
> development practice.


Hi,

At the Adium project, we have a Google Summer of Code student working 
on just this topic:

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/adium/appinfo.html?csaid=D7497FA4871ECDFA


andy