• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

"Scala Programming": Agile and Scala

 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 56
Scala Mac OS X Java
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Good day Venkat,
I've seen you're directly involved Agile Programming and I was wondering if there are Scala and functional programming features that you find helpful in this aspect?
Do you accidentaly mention any of this in your book?
Of course I'm both interested in Agile methodologies and now reading Martin Odersky's book.

Thank you,
Ivano.
 
Author
Posts: 135
10
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi Ivano,

In the book I have a chapter on Unit Testing (and discuss mocks). I consider
unit testing an important topic to cover since it relates to a significant programmer
activity in agile development. In addition to that, the conciseness, expressiveness,
and low ceremony of Scala will help quite a bit with agility.
 
Ivano Pagano
Ranch Hand
Posts: 56
Scala Mac OS X Java
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Thank you again for your quick answer
Ivano
 
best scout
Posts: 1294
Scala IntelliJ IDE Java
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi,

does Scala currently provide its own support for testing or do you have to use Java test frameworks like JUnit or TestNG? Or are there even different approaches for testing Scala code which wouldn't be possible in Java or other languages? I wouldn't have any ideas about that at the moment but who knows?

Marco
 
Venkat Subramaniam
Author
Posts: 135
10
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi Marco, the answer is all of the above!
 
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic