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		<title>Mapping Personal Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.benstopford.com/?p=979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought this  post from Ade was pretty  interesting. It refers back to an exercise Joe Walnes ran at Extreme  Tuesday. The concept is simple but pretty  cool and a few of us here at RBS had a crack at  it. You can see the results below.
Robin  Morris
Tiest  Ville
Pat  Kua
Chris  Brown
Me
We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Stubs: Why We Need Interaction Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You've probably been testing your code for years but have you ever really peered round to examine the far side of a class and how it interacts with its collaborators?]]></description>
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		<title>Isolating Functional Units: Why We Need Stubs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.benstopford.com/?p=820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m planning a short set of articles on testing, summarising my thoughts from the slides presented at RefTest (here). This first one looks at the traditional split between unit tests, in which tests are generally isolated, and functional tests, which exercise an entire call stack. 
If an application is built without the use of stubs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Mocks All They Are Cracked Up To Be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.benstopford.com/?p=794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed the below snippet in Martin Fowler in his article on the subject of Mock based testing: “I don't see any compelling benefits for mockist TDD, and am concerned about the consequences of coupling tests to implementation.”]]></description>
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		<title>Component Software. Where is it going?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article looks at current trends in Component Software and reflects on how they predict the trends of the future. Sudipto Ghosh [Ghosh02] stated that “all future software systems will be developed from components”. This and other opinions are examined and finally the cost efficiency of component software in its different incarnations is looked at in full.
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		<title>Do Metrics Have a Place in Software Engineering Today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. It may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science."]]></description>
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