Ben Parker: Testing times with Scala : A TDD journey using anti-xml

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A client asked me to convert one XML format to another. I was relegated to Java during the day and as I was missing my lovely lightweight TDD Scala coding, I didnt even consider XSLT. I simply added anti-xml to my sbt build and got stuck in.

This talk is the journey I went through over 3 days test-driving this work using Specs2. In particular I will focus on how I went about testing and the issues I faced in asserting the expected xml.

I will also talk about what I might do differently now, given a little more time, and suggest additions to the anti-xml library to have made my job even easier.

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