Are Unit Tests Overused? I was reading this blog post by Andrew Hunter recently where he poses the question as to whether or not unit tests are overused. The core of his argument is a rather nuanced one that seems to hinge on two main points of wariness: Developers may view unit tests as a…
As of Thursday, 11/02/12, a baby ASP MVC project named FeedPaper (later to be feedpapyr.us) has arrived. It is healthy and weights 0 pounds and 0 ounces. Both it and I are doing well, and while it does not yet have much in the way of functionality, it does have its father’s logo and some…
Getting Incentives Wrong A while ago I was talking to a friend of mine, and he told me that developers in his shop get monetary bonuses for absorbing additional scope in a “waterfall” project. (I use quotes because I don’t think that “waterfall” is actually a thing — I think it’s just collective procrastination followed…
Last time, we left off with a bowling score calculator that handled basic score calculation with the exception of double strikes and the tenth frame. Here is the code as of right now for both classes: [TestClass] public class BowlingTest { [TestClass] public class Constructor { [TestMethod, Owner(“ebd”), TestCategory(“Proven”), TestCategory(“Unit”)] public void Initializes_Score_To_Zero() { var…
For this Friday, I thought I’d do something a little more lighthearted and, in the tradition of bad television (or Robot Chicken’s satire thereof) post some programming bloopers. These are actual things that I’ve personally seen in source code as opposed to some kind of specific sampling of CodeSOD from the Daily WTF. Doing this…
