Recently I followed a course given by Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson. Together with about 20 colleague’s from Qualogy we learned to use Test Driven Development in a better way. I was already convinced that TDD was the way to go and this course reaffirmed this strongly.

The current code at this site will be rewritten and I will try to use the techniques I learned form Ron and Chet. I will tell you all about my progress – and my errors – in this blog and you are invited to comment on my writings. This site will serve two interests: astronomical software and agile techniques.

What’s next

The Dutch Ephemeris uses binary data files. I wrote a few classes to construct these files from the original data as published for the VSOP87 approach – a method to describe the elements of planetary movements. I dod not yet publish the code for creating these binary files. I will use it for the first attempt to rewrite the code and publish the results, hopefully within a few weeks.

Yes, I know, TDD speeds things up, but I also have my daily job