For those of you who work in agile environments, maybe nothing I say here will be new. Even for those who don’t work in agile environments, you may have found yourself thinking along these lines but not necessarily sure of … Continue reading
Here I’m going to try my hand at creating the start of an interpreter. This obviously follows on from the previous posts in this series.
If you’ve followed this series up to this point, you now have a lexing and parsing engine that, while not doing much, is passing its tests. What we don’t have is a way to really say that our language works … Continue reading
We left off with a parser test we wanted to execute (in parser_spec.rb) and a grammar file to generate a parser (in grammar.y). The actions specified in the grammar file, and thus what will be tested in the spec file, … Continue reading
One thing I can claim to know: as any company continues to grow its quality practices (not just its test practices), its challenges will grow. One of those challenges will be making sure that the company can operate in a … Continue reading
I started playing a game type that I rarely play: a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. Specifically, Star Wars: The Old Republic. As I was playing it, I realized that it was actually an interesting game for a tester. I … Continue reading
Following on from the second post in this series, a lexer has now been created that can tokenize some input for a hypothetical language. Given what was accomplished, theoretically I can use my language to create the most minimal sort … Continue reading
Following on from the first post in this series, I did a development spike that proved to myself I had some clue as to what I was doing. So now I want to get into actually building a language from … Continue reading
In previous posts I talked about how one of my goals was to come up with an alternative to Gherkin. This is not in the “just to see if I can” category but rather because I believe it could be … Continue reading
