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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 54m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 19. Handling Failure

In which we address the reality of programming in an imperfect world, and add failure reporting. We add a new auction event that reports failure. We attach a new event listener that will turn off the Sniper if it fails. We also write a message to a log and write a unit test that mocks a class, for which we’re very sorry.To avoid trying your patience any further, we close our example here.

So far, we’ve been prepared to assume that everything just works. This might be reasonable if the application is not supposed to last—perhaps it’s acceptable if it just crashes and we restart it or, as in this case, we’ve been mainly concerned with demonstrating and exploring the domain. Now it’s time to start being explicit about ...

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