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” Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…