Loïc Faugeron has continued his "Mars Rover" series in his latest post today. This series, based on a set of specifications from a development challenge. In this latest post he continues looking at event sourcing and creates a package to handle the eventing to make it more flexible and robust.

In this series we're building the software of a Mars Rover, according to the following specifications. It will allow us to practice the followings: Monolithic Repositories (MonoRepo), Command / Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), Event Sourcing (ES) Test Driven Development (TDD).

Up until now, we've implemented the first use case, "Landing a rover on Mars" [and] in the last article, we wrote some Event Sourcing code. [...] In this article, we're going to extract them from the navigation package and put them in their own event-sourcing package.

He starts by creating the package itself as a Composer package including the composer.json configuration and a few other files to have phpspec work correctly. He then adds the event-sourcing package to the main project and starts in on using phpspec to generate its basic files. He then updates the main Lander class to use this new package for events. There's no code in the eventing classes yet, but stay tuned for the next tutorial in the series that will update them and get it all working together.

Loïc Faugeron has posted the latest tutorial in his series about developing a "Mars Rover" script using various design patterns and principles. In this latest part of the series he looks at handling the "landing event" of the rover.

In this series we're going to build the software of a Mars Rover, according to the following specifications. [...] Previously we've created a navigation package, and in it a LandRover class that validates input parameters for our first use case. [...] We've then refactored it to extract coordinates and orientation in their own classes.

In this article we're going to create the actual landing logic, using Event Sourcing

He then starts in, creating the tests first because of TDD, on the LandRoverHandler to integrate a command architecture (using the Command Bus pattern). He then sets up the structure for the event sourcing and an basic event for the landing of the rover. This includes the handler for the event, the event itself and the storage method for capturing that the event happened. He fills in the generated classes with a bit of logic and a few updates to the test for the new structure.

Loïc Faugeron is back again with the next part of his "Mars Rover" series of tutorials. In this new article he refactors the current code even more to make it more flexible in the long run.

In this series we're going to build the software of a Mars Rover, according to the following specifications. It will allow us to practice the followings: Monolithic Repositories (MonoRepo), Command / Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), Event Sourcing (ES) and Test Driven Development (TDD). Previously we've created a navigation package, and in it a LandRover class that validates input parameters for our first use case.

We've also started to refactor it by extracting coordinates in their own class. In this article we're going to further refactor LandRover

He found that the coordinates could become floats (or have additional values) and that the orientation could become an angular degree/be vertical. To help this situation, he pulls this logic out into an Orientation class. True to the TDD methods, he starts with the phpspec test and generates the skeleton class based on them. He makes some simple edits to make the tests pass and updates the main LandRover class to use the new Orientation class for these positions.

Loïc Faugeron has continued his "Mars Rover" series of posts with this latest tutorial covering the functionality for the landing coordinates.

In this series we're going to build the software of a Mars Rover, according to the following specifications. It will allow us to practice the followings: Monolithic Repositories (MonoRepo), Command / Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), Event Sourcing (ES) and Test Driven Development (TDD).

Previously we've created a navigation package, and in it a LandRover class that validates input parameters for our first use case. [...] In this article we're going to refactor LandRover.

He starts off with the justification of why the LandRover class needs to change and what kinds of new classes need to be made. He starts with the phpspec tests and builds out the Coordinates and Orientation classes (with some basic functionality) to make the movement and direction of the rover more flexible and the meet the test requirements.

Loïc Faugeron has posted the latest part of his "Mars Rover" series documenting the creation of a system to control a rover following the ideas of Monolithic Repositories, Command / Query Responsibility Segregation, Event Sourcing and Test Driven Development (using phpspec). In his previous posts he set up the project and created the package for navigation. in this latest post he gets into the navigation package.

Previously we've created a navigation package, we can now start developing the first use case:

Mars Rovers need first to be landed at a given position. A position is composed of coordinates (x and y, which are both integers) and an orientation (a string being one of north, east, west or south).

He starts off with using the Command Bus pattern to create a command, a handler and a bus that acts on the commands given. True to TDD he starts with the tests and fills in the code to make it all work. This generates the skeleton class for the test which is then filled in with functionality. Running the tests again then has them all passing once a few more changes are made to the internal handling (besides just the basics).