The other day, I was working on a page in a webforms app where a postback, triggered by a button click, kicked off a bit of processing that would run from 10-20 seconds. While this is going on, it makes sense to disable the clicked button and other controls, for that matter. Since the processing…
Documentation and Training as Failures Some time back, I was listening to someone explain the finer points of various code that he had written when he lamented the lack of documentation and training available for prospective users of this code. I thought to myself rather blithely and flippantly, “why – just write the code so…
As I mentioned recently, I’ve taken to using an inheritance scheme in my approach to unit testing. Because of the mechanics of this scheme, making a class under test internal this morning brought to light two relatively obscure properties of scoping and visibility in C# that you might not be aware of: Internal can be…
Have you ever listened to someone describe a process that they follow at work and thought “that’s completely insane!”? Maybe part of their build process involves manually editing sixty different files. Maybe their computer crashes every twenty minutes, so they only ever do anything for about fifteen minutes at a time. Or worse, maybe they…
When it comes to writing tests, I’ve been on sort of a mild, ongoing quest to increase readability. Generally speaking, I follow a pattern of setup, action, verification in all tests. I’ve seen this called other things: given-when-then, etc. But when describing the basic nature of unit tests (especially as compared to integration tests) to…
