My friend Paul pointed something out to me the other day regarding my post about TDD even when you have to discard tests. I believe that this trick was taken from the book Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers (though I haven’t yet read this one, so I can’t be positive. I was…
Recently, I posted my incredulity at the idea that someone would go to the effort of writing unit tests and not source control them as a matter of course. I find that claim as absurd today as I did then, but I did happen on an interesting edge case where I purposely discarded a unit…
An Extraordinary Claim I was talking to a friend the other day, and he relayed a conversation that he’d had with a co-worker. They were discussing writing unit tests and the co-worker claimed that he writes unit tests regularly, but discards them and never checks them into source control. I was incredulous at this, so…
Copy, Paste, Fail, Repeat Today, I was reviewing some code, and I saw a “before” that looked like this: private void RefreshClassifierValues(Array NewValues) { List ClassifiersList = Classifiers; int i = 0; foreach (Classifier classifier in ClassifiersList) { classifier.Value = NewValues.GetValue(i++); } } The first thing that stuck out to me was that I really…
Today, I’d like to highlight a couple of features of Moq that I didn’t know about until relatively recently (thanks to a recent google+ hangout with Moq author, Daniel Cazzulino). Since learning about these features, I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of them. But, in order to explain these two features and the…
