RSpec goes 1.0

Posted by Daniel Tue, 22 May 2007 21:34:08 GMT

RSpec: Spec provides a Domain Specific Language with which you can express executable examples of the expected behaviour of a system. [I haven’t had a chance to try this, but I’ve been following along for a little while. I’m looking forward to feeling what this is like.]

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Release It! (Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software)

Posted by Daniel Tue, 22 May 2007 18:42:00 GMT

Release It! by Michael T. Nygard is filled with “from the trenches” advice and stories of the sorts of things that all of us who have deployed software run into. Issues of “scale” and “availability” tend to be business issues of immediate impact and are often ill considered in the design and redesign of software. More here.

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