In the last post in this series, I covered what I think of as an important yet seldom discussed subject: how not to overwhelm yourself and get discouraged when you’re starting to unit test. In the post before that, I showed the basics of writing a unit test. But this leaves something of a gap….
I don’t know about you, but I remember desperately wanting to be able to drive right up until I was fifteen years old and I got my learner’s permit. I thought about it a lot–how fun it would be, how much freedom I would have, how my trusty old bike would probably get rusty from…
I was reviewing some code the other day, and I saw a quick-and-dirty logger implementation that looked something like this (I’m re-creating from memory and modifying a bit for illustrative purposes in this post): public class Logger { public string Path { get; set; } public Logger() { } public Logger(string path) { Path =…
Let’s say that in a green field code base someone puts together a type that conceptually is a collection of non-integer values. For the sake of discussion, let’s call it a graph. A graph object might store a series of two-element tuples or perhaps a series of some value type like “point.” The graph might…
The Origins of Legacy Code I’ve been reading the Michael Feathers book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code and enjoying it immensely. It’s pushing ten years old, but it stands the test of time quite well–probably much better than some of the systems it uses as examples. And there is a lot of wisdom to take…
