TDD – 029 – Getting one field to audit… almost

by Jonathan Halder | Jan 10, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

Ok, opened up the FormAuditor database and ran the tests. Here’s where I’m at: That test name is a mouthful! GivenFormAuditorWhenOneFieldIsChangedThenAuditorReturnsSingleListOfChanges Given: FormAuditorWhen: One Field Is ChangedThen:...

TDD – 028 – Full throttle forward! Make the test pass and make another failing test!

by Jonathan Halder | Jan 8, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

The latest test is failing due to a compiler error: ‘@TestMethod(“FormAuditor”) Private Sub GivenFormAuditorWhenNoFormIsChangedThenAuditorReturnsEmptyListOfChanges() Dim testFormAuditor As New FormAuditor Dim testDictionary As New...

TDD – 027 – Considering what the class consumer wants

by Jonathan Halder | Jan 5, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

First things first, I am continuing to work on the new test and adding code so it will actually be testing the class user expectations. I would expect that if I create this Form Auditor class and don’t have any changes to any forms, I would expect that any...

TDD – 026 – Getting back to the user requirements

by Jonathan Halder | Jan 4, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

Back to testing: I am currently working on this test, which I never actually completed. ‘@TestMethod(“FormListener”) Private Sub FormListenerRaisesBoundDataChangedEvent() FormListenerTest.Setup NewForm NewForm.TestText = “NewThing”...

TDD – 025 – Where did TDD go wrong and renaming tests

by Jonathan Halder | Jan 3, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

I just watched a YouTube video today discussing where TDD went wrong, you can watch it if you want, but you don’t have to: Basically, TDD has been around a while and has gone through a lot of analysis. Seems like most proponents now adays are talking about going...

TDD – 024 – Now Where Were We? Form Auditor Recap

by Jonathan Halder | Jan 2, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

Now that I can continue working easily on both my laptop and desktop it is time to recap the project and re-orient to get back to work on building the form auditor. My current vision for the form auditor is to be able to create an instance of a form auditing class in...