Sorry, but I'm going to be rather uncharacteristically apolitically frank... Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Hi Kevin (and everyone else)!
Attached are `spec.hpp' which implements the inital supported BDD terms (equal, not_equal, between(...)and(...) ).
I've attached the initial explorations (one header, and a test implementation). Comments and insights will be most appreciated. :)
Yea... Looks as bad as I feared.
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As to the ghostly reference, it was for a visual effect for a film and the request came from an artist to a developer, in this case it was important that the two work directly to express the requirements and not have 2-3 layers of interpretation between them. "make it look ghostly" might be the name of a test suite or behavioral description suite/acceptance tests essentially a starting point for ubiquitous language.
Very interesting indeed. I would think BDD will be very useful in these situations, especially for the developers and even non-technical customers (who feel comfortable with english anyway).
It's a very sad day when people can again think that customers can program. After 25 years of programming this seems to be a recurring false pattern. Having done a stint in knowledge based reasoning AI development I can tell you that there's a very good reason for the term "expert". And for those not familiar with some of the AI aspects in this, unless you are willing to make non-programmers write in Esperanto, you'll be faced with natural language parsing nightmares. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo