August, 2011: Testing with gocheck – custom checkers

This post follows on from my previous post about gocheck. gocheck uses a checker abstraction to test arbitrary properties in tests, in the previous post for example we used the Equals and Panic checkers to test our code. It is very simple to write your own checkers and I will walk through some more complicated checker in this post. (more…)

August, 2011: PetitParser Bon Mots

I’ve been working with parsing number literals in Smalltalk recently. I’ve discovered a small collection of tricks not entirely explained in PetitParser’s otherwise excellent documentation, so I thought I’d share my experiences:

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