September 18, 2022
The word “legacy” has a lot of connotations. Mostly bad ones. We seem to forget that our beautiful code gets to “legacy code“ status three days after writing it. Michael Feathers, in his wonderful book “Working Effectively With Legacy Code”… Continue Reading…
July 17, 2019
It’s a funny thing, code testability. It’s not really defined, or rather, it is defined poorly. If “testable code” is “code we can test”, that means all code is like that. We can test it through unit tests. If it’s… Continue Reading…
October 28, 2017
Whenever we learn a new skill, and go deeper, it feels like we’re climbing a stairway to mastery. A few years ago, I described how people get into unit testing, and their journey along the path, as walking up a… Continue Reading…
October 7, 2017
I was apparently mistaken when I said I’d publish small stuff over time. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve got a full chapter (so far) of Everyday Unit Testing: • Unit Testing Economics. – History – How did we get… Continue Reading…
July 17, 2019
Unit testing is a set of skills, that rarely appears on a resume. When I saw a resume with unit testing on it, it rose up to the top of the interview queue. I understood the person who put it… Continue Reading…
October 6, 2017
I’ve decided to do smaller releases of “Everyday Unit Testing”, and not wait for full chapters. I’m going to send out emails once a month with the accumulating changes, but releases would be more frequent. As to this one, this… Continue Reading…
October 6, 2017
You’ve probably seen it coming. I started a series of posts about unit test attributes here, and then went into them in details. I now morphed the series of posts into a section into the Basic Guidelines chapter. If the… Continue Reading…
July 17, 2019
This is last, final, and 10th entry in the ten commandments of unit tests attributes that started here. And you should read all of them. We usually talk about isolation in terms of mocking. Meaning, when we want to write… Continue Reading…
July 17, 2019
This is the 9th post in the Unit Tests Attribute series that started here. To learn more about testing, contact me. I keep hammering on trust and how it’s crucial that we trust our unit tests. If unit tests are… Continue Reading…
July 17, 2019
This is the 8th post, soon to be the 8th wonder of the world, in the Unit Tests Attribute series that started here. To learn more about testing, contact me. I want to thank Steven Colbert for coining a word… Continue Reading…