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…
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…
TDD Revisited Again Previously I blogged about TDD with some reservations and then later as I re-introduced myself to the pure practice as I had learned it some many moons ago. For the last month, I have been plowing ahead methodically with this experiment, and I thought I’d revisit some of my thoughts from earlier….
Code Reviews One thing that I tend to contemplate from time to time and have yet to post about is the idea of code reviews and what constitutes a good one. I’ve worked on projects where there was no code review process, a half-hearted review process, an annoying or counter-productive code review process, and a…
In a previous post some time back, I had expressed some skepticism about TDD as a design practice. I talked about test-driven development and its relationship with prototyping and the “make one to throw away” concept. Since I’m not one ever to believe that I’ve arrived at the optimal solution, I’m doing another round of…
