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...reme Programming terms, this is often a "user story". A user story is considered complete when all acceptance tests pass. Unlike unit tests, which should ideally be running with a 100% pass rate, acceptance tests start at 0% and finish at 100% when the story is fully implemented. From the extremeprogramming.org website: Acceptance tests are black box system tests. Each acceptance test represents > some expected result from the system. Customers are responsible for > verifying the correctness of the acceptance tests and reviewing test scores > to decide which failed tests are of highest prior...

I hired a friend of a friend to build my company a fairly substantial application. He quoted it, committed to it, and now says he has run out of money. I''ve offered him additional money/incentives ...twice. He continues to commit, and then, ultimately not make his commitment. I''m not sure what my options are. Ideally, I would like to simply fire him and hire someone to

Does anyone have an idea of the rates being charged by Rails developers (or salaries for FTEs)? I''m curious to see whether rates will become comparable to those paid to more experienced Java/.NET developer types, or if rates will be lowered by the free/open source mentality, and the possible perception that Rails makes Web development "easy." Sometimes rates are more

Suppose we have a method ''foo'' which internally uses another method ''bar''. Being good BDDers we mock out the ''bar'' method. After all, we only want to spec the ''foo'' method - actually running the ''bar'' method means slower, less maintainable and brittler specs. That''s why we <3 mocking,