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Back to Outline 11 - Modeling, Continued. On to Outline 13 - Behavior-Driven Development.

Summary

We move forward to our primary application model for the course, Software as a Service.

Related Pages

Overview

• DRY.
• Thinking about SaaS.
• Rails, revisited.

Administrivia

Upcoming Work

• SaaSBook 8 for Friday.
• Saas HW 2 (Sinatra Hangman) for Monday. (It's in "Intro to BDD, TDD, and SaaS" on the MOOC.)
• Reading Journal for Friday (due Thursday at 10pm)
  • Subject: Reading Journal for Class 13 (Your Name)
  • How does Fox and Patterson's presentation of test-driven development compare to your prior experiences with unit testing?
  • Choose the most confusing idea from 8.2 - 8.6. Make a serious attempt to explain this idea in your own words. What questions remain?
  • Choose the most confusing idea from 8.7 - 8.9. Make a serious attempt to explain this idea in your own words. What questions remain?
  • What do you see as the relationship(s) between BDD and TDD? Which do you prefer?
  • What do you see as the most important or enduring concept in this chapter overall?
  • Citation: Questions are based on journal questions from JLND.

Good Things to Do

See http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/s2d@g/

• Thursday at 11:00 a.m. Convocation on Gates. (Not Gates Tower.)
• Thursday at 4:15 p.m. Thursday Extra.

DRYness

• What is DRY code?
• Why is it important?
• How do you achieve it?
  • In general?
  • Using techniques in Ruby and Rails?

Thinking About SaaS

• What is SaaS?
• How do we build SaaS applications?
• Why are we focusing on SaaS? (Why did F&P choose to focus on SaaS?)
• What ethical issues might relate to SaaS?

Rails, Revisited

• How do you find the F&P presentation of Rails different than the Hartl presentation?