{"id":265,"date":"2009-03-14T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2009-03-14T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T19:55:22","slug":"mwrc-test-driving-guis-by-brian-marick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/mwrc-test-driving-guis-by-brian-marick\/","title":{"rendered":"mwrc: Test-driving GUIs by Brian Marick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Marick &#8211; Test-driving GUIs (with RubyCocoa). Brian is a good, enjoyable presenter.<\/p>\n<p>Objective-C is more like Ruby than it is like Java.<\/p>\n<p>He tests apps written in Objective-C using Ruby. This works fairly well, with<br \/>\nan occasional necessity to explicitly convert from a Ruby boolean to an Obj-C<br \/>\nboolean type.<\/p>\n<p>The danger of using mock objects is that they don&#8217;t behave like the real world<br \/>\nobjects that they mock. Sometimes, he has the test verify the expected result,<br \/>\nbut runs the interaction with the application manually. He&#8217;s the &#8220;mechanical<br \/>\nturk&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Marick &#8211; Test-driving GUIs (with RubyCocoa). Brian is a good, enjoyable presenter. Objective-C is more like Ruby than it is like Java. He tests apps written in Objective-C using Ruby. This works fairly well, with an occasional necessity to explicitly convert from a Ruby boolean to an Obj-C boolean type. The danger of using &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/mwrc-test-driving-guis-by-brian-marick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mwrc: Test-driving GUIs by Brian Marick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-mtnwestrubyconf","tag-mwrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}