Comments on: Book Club: Integration tests are a scam (J.B. Rainsberger) http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/10/06/book-club-integration-tests-are-a-scam-j-b-rainsberger/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Awkward Coder http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/10/06/book-club-integration-tests-are-a-scam-j-b-rainsberger/comment-page-1/#comment-23472 Awkward Coder Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:40:12 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1707#comment-23472 Yes repositories, logging, factories etc are services - they just don't literally get called a service because the functionality they provide is obvious and self explanatory. Also for me they all represent services which provide some kind of 'plumbing' for an application that fulfils a business requirement - persisting an entity or logging don't solve a business requirement the use of these services combined with other business specific services and entities solves the problem... Yes repositories, logging, factories etc are services – they just don’t literally get called a service because the functionality they provide is obvious and self explanatory.

Also for me they all represent services which provide some kind of ‘plumbing’ for an application that fulfils a business requirement – persisting an entity or logging don’t solve a business requirement the use of these services combined with other business specific services and entities solves the problem…

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