It’s been a while since I read some interesting posts showing creative uses of Hamcrest library out of test code. Since then I’ve been proscrastinating to implement my own version, trying strongly typed java delegates. Thankfully this week I came across a nice API called hamcrest-collections. It uses Hamcrest to implement features such as select, [...]

Latest Martin Fowler‘s post about HumaneRegistry mentions the first project I was involved working for ThoughtWorks. It was a SOA-Governance consulting with some development effort, and also some effort on harvesting information about services provided by different applications inside the organization, compiling and placing them on the wiki. The idea was to get both service [...]

Since JBehave 2.0 was released in September, I’ve been using it on my current project to verify the acceptance criteria for the features we are implementing, ensuring that the web interface is following the right workflow, and is displaying the data as expected, as well as some other important elements. What is JBehave? JBehave is [...]

Last week, I went to a hospital in St Leonards, yes I was feeling sick, but now I’m fine. The thing is, while I was waiting to see the doctor my wife called my attention “Look, the doctors are having a stand-up meeting!!!!” (she’s been reading about agile…). It was awesome! There were about six [...]