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2008 Jan 17
5
unusual challenges speccing external software
...itself, especially the parts which generate MIDI, I set up a layer of abstraction. Instead of directly driving the code which sends MIDI to external software, the code which generates the music drives an output adapter, and the output adapter sends MIDI to external software - or, in the case of the TextOutputAdapter, just text-dumps the music. Since it all comes back as text, it''s very easy to write specs against. But I''ve ended up with three artifacts that are *either* byproducts of bad design *or* bad products of a compromised spec process. I created three mock *classes* (as opposed to moc...