Category: Development

BDD in Visual Studio – part 1: introduction

As a natural extension of Test Driven Development (TDD), BDD takes things a stage further.

TDD focuses on the use of Unit Tests to drive out a specification for your code and to guide your development. The nature of unit tests means that they are mainly practical for use by developers and, as the name suggests, only for unit testing.

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22nd March 2017

A guide to SRP, Open/Closed, Dependency Injection, Interfaces, Unit Testing and Mocks

This video is a guide for developers to help them understand what changes need to be made to code to make it testable and sustainable. It uses parts of the SOLID principles to refine an example class.

Topics covered:

  • Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
  • Open/Closed principle
  • Dependency Injection
  • Interfaces
  • Unit Testing
  • Mocks

12th January 2017

Geospatial search using MongoDB and PHP

A short tutorial showing how to use MongoDB to create a geospatial index.

9th October 2015