TDD as a Practice The essence of Test Driven Development (TDD) can be summarized most succinctly as “red, green, refactor”. Following this practice will tend to make your code more reliable, cleaner, and better designed. It is no magic bullet, but you doing TDD is better at programming than you not doing it. However, a…
So, the other day I mentioned to a coworker that I was working on a tool that would wrap moq and provide expressive test double names. I then mentioned the tool AutoMoq, and he showed me something that he was doing. It’s very simple: [TestClass] public class FeatureResetServiceTest { #region Builders private static FeatureResetService BuildTarget(IFeatureLocator…
What’s Wrong with Code Contracts?!? Let me start out by saying that I really see nothing wrong with code contracts, and what I’m offering is not intended as any kind of replacement for them in the slightest. Rather, I’m offering a solution for a situation where contracts are not available to you. This might occur…
GitHub Not too long ago, I signed up for GitHub. I had always used subversion for source control when given the choice, but the distributed nature of Git appealed to me, particularly since I often do work on a variety of different machines. GitHub itself appealed to me because it seemed like the perfect venue…
I was chatting with someone the other day about some code that he had written, and he expressed that he wished he had done it another way. He said that there was a bunch of duplication and that, while he wasn’t sure what he should have done, he didn’t think it seemed quite right. I…
