The Disco Blog

This week’s bag is so disco:

• Version Control System survey- Interesting trends for 2006– both Subversion and Microsoft’s Team System show disco growth.
• Check in all your binary dependencies into Source Control- Jeremy Miller advocates it; however, I couldn’t disagree more!
• COBOL: The New Latin- “COBOL is growing … by about a billion lines per year” and you thought Disco was dead.
• Singleton is Incompatible with Unit Testing- Michael Feathers of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” fame suggests making your Singletons Fingletons.
• STAF V3.2.0 is now available- STAF is a framework designed to improve the level of reuse and automation in test cases and test environments, man.
• Test Driven Development- TDD in C! You’ve got to read it to believe it– although, I’m a bit more liberal on the definition of TDD– it doesn’t imply test first, in my opinion. That’s an incredibly hard technique for people to master. I’d rather instill a process where all non-trivial code has tests (which would be written after the code itself).
• TestNG version 5.3 has been released- Keep up, if you can, man.
• Unit test Struts applications with mock objects and AOP- I firmly believe there are a lot of Struts applications in production today.