I discovered a bug in the game I had written on Tic Tac Toe. When the board is in a certain state, the system did not take the obvious winning move. It still won the game, but with an extra move required. This article details how to write a failing unit test to reproduce the issue and how to update the minimax …
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This is the fourth part in this trilogy! - with a brief interlude last week for an introduction to the Minimax algorithm. This article builds on the App from part 1 and 2, which allows two players to play Tic Tac Toe. In this article we will implement the minimax algorithm to determin the best move for the computer to …
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This creates the View for Tic Tac Toe app utilising the Model and ViewModel created in part 1. More unit tests are added as functionality is required and then the code to get the tests to pass is implemented.
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Test Driven Development is a process of writing unit tests for software before writing the code to get those tests to pass. Many of us struggle to write the tests before we write the software, but this has gotten easier in Xcode over the years. This article demonstrate an approach for implementing a simple version of …
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