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Fit for Developing Software Rick Mugridge

Fit for Developing Software By Rick Mugridge

Fit for Developing Software by Rick Mugridge


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Addresses the interface between customers/testers/analysts and programmers. This book is useful for a range of people whose shared goal is improving team communications.

Fit for Developing Software Summary

Fit for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests by Rick Mugridge

The unique thing about Fit for Developing Software is the way it addresses the interface between customers/testers/analysts and programmers. All will find something in the book about how others wish to be effectively communicated with. A Fit book for programmers wouldn't make sense because the goal is to create a language for business-oriented team members. A Fit book just for businesspeople wouldn't make sense because the programmers have to be involved in creating that language. The result is a book that should appeal to a wide range of people whose shared goal is improving team communications. --Kent Beck, Three Rivers Institute Even with the best approaches, there always seemed to be a gap between the software that was written and the software the user wanted. With Fit we can finally close the loop. This is an important piece in the agile development puzzle. --Dave Thomas, coauthor of The Pragmatic Programmer Ward and Rick do a great job in eschewing the typical, overly complicated technology trap by presenting a simple, user-oriented, and very usable technology that holds fast to the agile principles needed for success in this new millennium. --Andy Hunt, coauthor of The Pragmatic Programmer Florida Tech requires software engineering students to take a course in programmer testing, which I teach. Mugridge and Cunningham have written a useful and instructive book, which will become one of our course texts. --Cem Kaner, Professor of Software Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology Rick and Ward continue to amaze me. Testing business rules is a fundamentally hard thing that has confounded many, and yet these two have devised a mechanism that cuts to the essence of the problem. In this work they offer a simple, thorough, approachable, and automatable means of specifying and testing such rules. --Grady Booch, IBM Fellow By providing a simple, effective method for creating and automating tabular examples of requirements, Fit has dramatically improved how domain experts, analysts, testers, and programmers collaborate to produce quality software. --Joshua Kerievsky, founder, Industrial Logic, Inc., and author of Refactoring to Patterns Agile software development relies on collaborating teams, teams of customers, analysts, designers, developers, testers, and technical writers. But, how do they work together? Fit is one answer, an answer that has been thoroughly thought through, implemented, and tested in a number of situations. Primavera has significantly stabilized its product lineusing Fit, and I'm so impressed by the results that I'm suggesting it to everyone I know. Rick and Ward, in their everlasting low-key approach, have again put the keystone in the arch of software development. Congratulations and thanks from the software development community. --Ken Schwaber, Scrum Alliance, Agile Alliance, and codeveloper of Scrum Fit is the most important new technique for understanding and communicating requirements. It's a revolutionary approach to bringing experts and programmers together. This book describes Fit comprehensively and authoritatively. If you want to produce great software, you need to read this book. --James Shore, Principal, Titanium I.T. LLC There are both noisy and quiet aspects of the agile movement and it is often the quieter ones that have great strategic importance. This book by Ward and Rick describes one of these absolutely vital, but often quieter, practices--testing business requirements. A renewed focus on testing, from test-driven development for developers to story testing for customers, is one of the agile community's great contributions to our industry, and this book will become one of the cornerstones of that contribution. Stories are done-done (ready for release) when they have been tested by both developers (done) and customers (done-done). The concepts and practices involved in customer story testing are critical to project success and wonderfully portrayed in this book. Buy it. Read it. Keep it handy in your day-to-day work. --Jim Highsmith, Director of Agile Software Development & Project Management Practice, Cutter Consortium I have been influenced by many books, but very few have fundamentally changed how I think and work. This is one of those books. The ideas in this book describe not just how to use a specific framework in order to test our software, but also how we should communicate about and document that software. This book is an excellent guide to a tool and approach that will fundamentally improve how you think about and build software--as it has done for me. --Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software, author of User Stories Applied Fit is a tool to help whole teams grow a common language for describing and testing the behavior of software. This books fills a critical gap--helping both product owners and programmers learn what Fit is and how to use it well. --Bill Wake, independent consultant Over the past several years, I've been using Fit and FitNesse with development teams. They are not only free and powerful testing tools, they transform development by making the behavior of applications concrete, verifiable, and easily observable. The only thing that has been missing is a good tutorial and reference. Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham's Fit For Developing Software fits the bill. Essentially, two books in one, it is a very readable guide that approaches Fit from technical and nontechnical perspectives. This book is a significant milestone and it will make higher software quality achievable for many teams. --Michael C. Feathers, author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code, and consultant, Object Mentor, Inc. Wow! This is the book I wish I had on my desk when I did my first story test-driven development project. It explains the philosophy behind the Fit framework and a process for using it to interact with the customers to help define the requirements of the project. It makes Fit so easy and approachable that I wrote my first FitNesse tests before I even I finished the book. For the price of one book, you get two, written by the acknowledged thought leaders of Fit testing. The first is written for the nonprogramming customer. It lays out how you can define the functionality of the system you are building (or modifying) using tabular data. It introduces a range of different kinds of 'test fixtures' that interpret the data and exercise the system under test. While it is aimed at a nontechnical audience, even programmers will find it useful because it also describes the process for interacting with the customers, using the Fit tests as the focal point of the interaction. The second 'book' is targeted to programmers. It describes how to build each kind of fixture described in the first book. It also describes many other things that need to be considered to have robust automated tests--things like testing without a database to make tests run faster. A lot of the principles will be familiar to programmers who have used any member of the xUnit family of unit testing frameworks. Rick and Ward show you how to put it into practice in a very easy-to-read narrative style that uses a fictitious case study to lead you through all the practices and decisions you are likely to encounter. --Gerard Meszaros, ClearStream Consulting The Fit open source testing framework brings unprecedented agility to the entire development process. Fit for Developing Software shows you how to use Fit to clarify business rules, express them with concrete examples, and organize the examples into test tables that drive testing throughout the software lifecycle. Using a realistic case study, Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham--the creator of Fit--introduce each of Fit's underlying concepts and techniques, and explain how you can put Fit to work incrementally, with the lowest possible risk. Highlights include Integrating Fit into your development processes Using Fit to promote effective communication between businesspeople, testers, and developers Expressing business rules that define calculations, decisions, and business processes Connecting Fit tables to the system with fixtures that check whether tests are actually satisfied Constructing tests for code evolution, restructuring, and other changes to legacy systems Managing the quality and evolution of tests A companion Web site (http://fit.c2.com/) that offers additional resources and source code

About Rick Mugridge

Rick Mugridge runs his own company, Rimu Research, and is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He specializes in Agile software development, automated testing, test-driven development, and user interfaces. Rick is one of the world's leading developers of Fit fixtures and tools, and is the creator of the FitLibrary. Ward Cunningham is widely respected for his contributions to the practices of object-oriented development, Extreme Programming, and software agility. Cofounder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., he has served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as principal engineer at the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward led the creation of Fit, and is responsible for innovations ranging from the CRC design method to WikiWikiWeb.

Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. About the Authors. 1. Introduction. The Need for Fit The Value of Fit Tables Fit and Business Roles Organization of the Book The Book's Use of Color I. INTRODUCING FIT TABLES. 2. Communicating with Tables. Fit Tables Tables for Communicating Tables for Testing Tables, Fixtures, and a System Under Test Reading Fit Tables 3. Testing Calculations with ColumnFixture Tables. Calculating Discount Reports: Traffic Lights Calculating Credit Selecting a Phone Number Summary Exercises 4. Testing Business Processes with ActionFixture Tables. Buying Items Actions on a Chat Server Summary Exercises 5. Testing Lists with RowFixture Tables. Testing Lists Whose Order Is Unimportant Testing Lists Whose Order Is Important Summary Exercises 6. Testing with Sequences of Tables. Chat Room Changes Discount Group Changes Summary Exercises 7. Creating Tables and Running Fit. Using Spreadsheets for Tests Organizing Tests in Test Suites Using HTML for Tests Summary Exercises 8. Using FitNesse. Introduction Getting Started Organizing Tests with Subwikis Test Suites Ranges of Values Other Features Summary Exercises 9. Expecting Errors. Expected Errors with Calculations Expected Errors with Actions Summary 10. FitLibrary Tables. Flow-Style Actions with DoFixture Expected Errors with DoFixture Actions on Domain Objects with DoFixture Setup CalculateFixture Tables Ordered List Tables Testing Parts of a List Summary Exercises 11. A Variety of Tables. Business Forms Testing Associations Two-Dimensional Images Summary Exercises II. DEVELOPING TABLES FOR RENTAPARTYSOFTWARE. 12. Introducing Fit at RentAPartySoftware. RentAPartySoftware Development Issues An Initial Plan The Cast The Rest of This Part Summary Exercises 13. Getting Started: Emily and Don's First Table. Introduction Choosing Where to Start The Business Rule Starting Simple Adding the Grace Period Adding High-Demand Items Reports Seth's Return Summary Exercises 14. Testing a Business Process: Cash Rentals. Introduction Cash Rentals Split and Restructure Which Client Summary Exercises 15. Tests Involving the Date and Time. Introduction Charging a Deposit Dates Business Transactions Sad Paths Reports Summary Exercises 16. Transforming Workflow Tests into Calculation Tests. Introduction Testing Calculations Instead Using Durations Reports Summary Exercises 17. Story Test-Driven Development with Fit. Introduction The Stories The First Storytests The Planning Game Adding to the Storytests Progress During the Iteration Exploratory Testing at Iteration End Summary Exercises 18. Designing and Refactoring Tests to Communicate Ideas. Principles of Test Design Fit Tests for Business Rules Workflow Tests Calculation Tests List Tests Tests and Change Automation of Tests Summary 19. Closing for Nonprogrammers. The Value of Fit Tables Getting Fit at RentAPartySoftware III. INTRODUCING FIT FIXTURES. 20. Connecting Tables and Applications. Writing Fixtures Fixtures and Traffic Lights 21. Column Fixtures. Fixture CalculateDiscount Extending Credit Selecting a Phone Number ColumnFixture in General Summary Exercises 22. Action Fixtures. Buying Items Changing State of Chat Room ActionFixture in General Summary Exercises 23. List Fixtures. Testing Unordered Lists Testing Ordered Lists Testing a List with Parameters Summary Exercises 24. Fixtures for Sequences of Tables. Chat Room Fixtures Discount Group Fixtures Summary Exercises 25. Using Other Values in Tables. Standard Values Values of Money Values in FitNesse and the Flow Fixtures Summary Exercises 26. Installing and Running Fit. Installing Fit and FitLibrary Running Fit on Folders Running Fit on HTML Files Running Tests During the Build Other Ways to Run Tests Summary 27. Installing FitNesse. Installation Locating the Code Larger-Scale Use with Virtual Wiki Debugging FitNesse Tests Summary Exercises 28. FitLibrary Fixtures. Flow-Style Actions with DoFixture DoFixtures as Adapters Using SetFixture Expected Errors with DoFixture Actions on Domain Objects with DoFixture DoFixture in General Setup CalculateFixture Tables Ordered-List Tables Testing Parts of a List Using Other Values in Flow Tables Summary Exercises 29. Custom Table Fixtures. Business Forms Testing Associations Two-Dimensional Images Summary IV. DEVELOPING FIXTURES FOR RENTAPARTYSOFTWARE. 30. Fixtures and Adapting the Application. Introduction The Programmers' Perspective System Architecture Test Infecting for Improvements The Rest of This Part 31. Emily's First Fixture. The Table Developing the Fixture Summary Exercises 32. Fixtures Testing Through the User Interface. Introduction Spike The Fixtures The Adapter Showing Others Summary 33. Restructuring the System for Testing. Test Infecting Slow Tests Setup Barriers to Testing Transactions Transaction Fixture Split Domain and Data Source Layers Reduce Interdependencies Summary 34. Mocks and Clocks. Introduction Changing the Date Time-Related Object Interactions Date Formatting Changing the Application in Small Steps Summary 35. Running Calculation Tests Indirectly. Testing Directly Testing Indirectly Summary 36. Closing for Programmers at RPS. The Value of Fit Tables Getting Fit at RPS V. CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT. 37. The Architecture of Fit. Running Fit Parse Tree doTable() Counts in Class Fixture The Fixture Subclasses TypeAdapter Summary Exercises 38. Developing Custom Fixtures. Using SetUpFixture SetUpFixture ImageFixture Summary 39. Custom Runners. Runners Calculator Runner Reading Tests from a Text File Reading Tests from a Spreadsheet Summary 40. Model-Based Test Generation. Symmetries: Operations That Cancel Each Other Generate a Simple Sequence Generate an Interleaved Sequence Summary Exercises VI. APPENDICES. Appendix A: Background Material. Testing Agile Software Development Ubiquitous Language Appendix B: Book Resources Web Site. Appendix C: Fit and Other Programming Languages. Table Portability Other Programming Languages Bibliography. Index.

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9780321269348
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Fit for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests by Rick Mugridge
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Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
20050601
384
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