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Alon Salant

Alon Salant

Custom Constraints for OCMock

In my last post on unit testing iPhone development I introduced a couple helpful tools including OCMock, a mock objects implementation for Objective-C. I recently came across a scenario where I needed to make an assertion on an argument passed to an expected method invocation but OCMock did not provide the constraint I needed. I

Alon Salant

Alon Salant

iPhone Unit Testing Toolkit

As we get in to developing iPhone/Touch applications at Carbon Five, we obviously want to bring over all our best agile practices including test driven development (TDD). I’ve been bootstrapping with the beta version of the Pragmatic iPhone SDK Development book but was disappointed to find no discussion of unit testing for the iPhone. So

Christian Nelson

Christian Nelson

Make the things you do often fast and easy

Many of our projects are ‘greenfield’ and we have the opportunity to do things the way we like. By working on new projects every few months, as opposed to one project over the course of years, we have lots of opportunity to easily tweak and tune the way we do things. Not all of our

Alon Salant

Alon Salant

Rewrite or Rescue

Java has been the tool of choice for enterprise application development for many organizations for over 10 years. We are seeing more and more applications that are aging and suffering for it. We have worked with several recent clients to breathe new life in to these legacy applications so they can evolve and grow with

Alon Salant

Alon Salant

Agile User Experience (UX) Resources

For the seven years that we have been evolving our Extreme Programming practice, we have repeatedly readdressed the question of how to best integrate user experience design (visual design, information architecture,…) with an agile process. As a consulting company, it has always been a requirement that we flex our process to accommodate our clients and