Dion just made me aware of an interesting open source project named Ashcroft, which aims to create a unit testing framework which poses technical restrictions to force developers to write "well-formed" unit tests. It sounds like a good and bad idea -- both at the same time. However, for me, the most interesting thing about Ashcroft is that I hadn't even considered (at least consciously) that it would make sense for a unit testing framework to be more restrictive than JUnit.

This fascinating blog entry by Mike Clark was the final straw. It sparked my inner geek and finally forced me to go and order a couple of pragmatic books for myself.

No, it's not a movie. It's really a no-brainer.