Improving Readability with Small Things In my series on building a Chess game using TDD I’ve defined a value type called BoardCoordinate that I introduced instead of passing around X and Y coordinate integer primitives everywhere. It’s a simple enough construct: public struct BoardCoordinate { private readonly int _x; public int X { get {…
Whether it’s because you want to be able to participate in software engineering discussions without having to surreptitiously look things up on your phone, or whether it’s because you have an interview coming up with a firm that wants you to be some kind of expert in OOP or something, you probably have at least…
I happened to read a post by Dror Helper the other day, in which he said: I believe TDD and “unit tests” has been done a great injustice by not giving it a cooler name – preferable one that doesn’t have the word “test” in it – because it’s a PR disaster! Wow, that had…
This is a post that I’ve had in my drafts folder for nearly two years. Well, I should say I’ve had the title and a few haphazard notes in my drafts folder for nearly two years; I’m writing the actual post right now. The reason I’ve had it sitting around for so long is twofold:…
I’m on a Scrum team these days, serving as Product Owner, and I was watching developers do functionality demos. This has generally been of the form of them walking me through the happy path, and then me taking it for a test drive and trying to put myself in a user, ‘cleverly’ typing “twenty five”…
