Edit: It occurs to me that the name here was kind of an oops. If you’re here to see how I use JUnit while developing in C#, you’re probably going to be disappointed. I meant to title this “JUnit for C# Developers 3”, but made a rather comical omission. My apologies. As I go along…
Last night, I posted about my adventures with TDD in Java from a C# developer’s perspective. As I start to shake my Java rust off a bit, I’m enjoying this more and more, so I think I’ll keep this series going for at least a bit, documenting some of my trials, travails, successes and failures….
As I’ve blogged previously, I’ve become increasingly dependent on TDD to the point where I’m basically addicted to the practice. I start to get nervous and twitchy if I’m writing code that isn’t driven by tests — it feels like putting a mop into a bucket of filthy water and then using it to ‘clean’….
Writing maintainable code is for “Code Monkeys”? This morning, I read an interesting blog post from Erik McClure. The premise of the post is that writing maintainable code is sufficiently boring and frustrating as to discourage people from the programming profession. A few excerpts from the post are: There is an endless stream of rheteric…
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…
