After Part I and Part II we were left with the following code and a failing test – our binary tree placed 7 at the trunk, 14 on the right node then 15 in place of the 14. We need the tree to place the 15 as the right node of the 14 node. We had decided that the best way to do this was to create a separate function for adding nodes which I’ve included as add_node. # binary_tree_sort.rb…
In Part I, I went over using TDD to turn an existing binary tree into an ordered array of integers. Here in Part II we’ll use TDD to build a sorted binary tree from an unsorted array of integers. So, the entire flow will be [unsorted_integers] –> sorted_binary_tree –> [sorted_integers]. Since we’re starting with an array and ending with an array I didn’t see any need to create an instance of BinaryTree each time we use it. Instead I created…
When I started a Rails bootcamp through the Firehose Project, I liked the idea of test driven development but it took a while to slowly appreciate its importance. Working on a collaborative group project we all got into the habit of writing code, then going back and writing obligatory tests to show that it worked. It didn’t take long, as code changed, for errors to start popping up though our tests were still passing. We quickly realized that 1 –…