Book about database application development?

Magnus Lycka lycka at carmen.se
Thu Oct 19 11:20:06 EDT 2006


Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> does anyone know of a good book that about development of database 
> applications?

Scott Ambler's "Agile Database Techniques"

Regardless of whether you'll actually use a full MVC framework or
not, I suggest that you write model classes that are fully decoupled
from the UI. Work in a test-driven fashion, writing tests first
and just coding until the test goes through, and then write the
next test. See e.g. Kent Beck's "Test-Driven Development". If
you use an SQL database below some ORM, you can use SQLite with
an in-memory database ":memory:" for your functional test. Fast
and simple.

I'd make the GUI as thin as possible, since GUI code it typically
more complicated to test automatically.



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