June 12, 2023
This post is part of the “Legacy Code to Testable Code” series. In the series we’ll talk about making refactoring steps before writing unit tests for legacy code, and how they make our life easier. Other posts include: A few… Continue Reading…
October 14, 2017
This post is part of the “Legacy Code to Testable Code” series. In the series we’ll talk about making refactoring steps before writing unit tests for legacy code, and how they make our life easier. It continues the last post… Continue Reading…
October 15, 2017
This post is part of the “Legacy Code to Testable Code” series. In the series we’ll talk about making refactoring steps before writing unit tests for legacy code, and how they make our life easier. Other posts include: Adding accessors… Continue Reading…
October 21, 2017
This post is part of the “Legacy Code to Testable Code” series. In the series we’ll talk about making refactoring steps before writing unit tests for legacy code, and how they make our life easier. Other posts included: As with… Continue Reading…
October 21, 2017
This post is part of the “Legacy Code to Testable Code” series. In the series we’ll talk about making refactoring steps before writing tests for legacy code, and how they make our life easier. Other posts include: Renaming is easy… Continue Reading…
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…
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
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…