News and notes from around the league.

I’m currently writing about Cucumber. It feels like I’ve been writing about cucumber for days. Longish post about Cucumber on the Pathfinder blog, plus I’m working on the Cucumber section for the book itself. The cucumber section for the book a) has almost no overlap with the Pathfinder blog post, and b) could well wind up as the longest section other than the actual getting started part. This is because I’m crazy. Actually, it’s really because it’s basically a mini-tutorial, using Acceptance Test Driven Development.

Anyway, current plan is for a second release on or about March 31, including Cucumber, autotest, and one or two other pieces yet to be determined.

Couple of links: Even though this is in Perl it’s an interesting essay on being a TDD fanatic versus actually getting things done. It sort of ties to my RailsConf talk, which is going to break apart what pieces of TDD are the most useful, and how permutations of the process affect results.

Pat Maddox, who is a core RSpec team member wrote a great post on mocks—this definitely changed some of the advice I gave in the Mocks and Stubs section of the book.

For an alternate view, 3HV talks about the brittleness of mocks.