<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 23 Nov 2011, at 10:28, James Cumming wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div><br></div><div>> Incidentally, I was listening to an interesting podcast interview with<br>> Gary Bernhardt yesterday. Among other things, it touched on different<br>> approaches to testing; might be a good start to further exploration.<br><a href="http://www.engineyard.com/podcast/s01e40-gary-bernhardt" target="_blank">> http://www.engineyard.com/podcast/s01e40-gary-bernhardt</a><br><span></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div>Interesting interview this was. Has anyone used classes in the lib folder extensively as Gary suggests? How have you found it? <br></div><div> I can think of a few of my projects where this make sense and hopefully speed up autotest.</div><div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I do this extensively these days (e-petitions whole searching infrastructure was built in lib).</div><div><br></div><div>It has a few big advantages: one of which is faster tests, but also it helps you to depend on your framework less and improve design through reducing collaborators.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Chris</div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">--<br>Chris Parsons<br><a href="mailto:chris.p@rsons.org">chris.p@rsons.org</a><br>http://twitter.com/chrismdp<br>http://pa.rsons.org<br><br><br><br></span>
</div>
<br></body></html>