Two book reviews

Test driven development: by example (Kent Beck)

An easy read (also quite thin). Didn't learn too much new but the later sections/appendixes that list refactoring patterns were quite interesting (I hadn't read about them before but I sure recognised some of them!).

Growing object-oriented software, guided by tests (Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce)

Sometimes a tad theoretic, sometimes a tad too practical. The automated testing of the user interface (reading value of label for example) is too extreme for my tastes but it was impressive to see it done. Great book to learn about mocking and mock objects! After all, Steve and Nat helped build jmock. It also expanded my ideas of TDD. I was to focused on unit tests but this book broadened my scope to include tests at every level and not to get too hung up with terminology.