I know, you want to check out the rest of the series. Here are the links: Code simplification is one of the best things we can do for ourselves. If we understand the code, not only will we write simpler tests, we will make less mistakes. Problem is, we’re now Read more…
You didn’t think we’ve covered everything, did you? Here’s a short reminder of what we got through: Today we’re going to talk about the Introduce Parameter refactoring pattern. This is one of the more useful patterns to clear code from dependencies. Here’s a method we’d like to test: public int Calculate(int x, Read more…
I know it’s been a while, but the Everyday unit testing book is not going away! I’ll try to pick up speed, while you can give me feedback on v.05 of the “Everyday Unit Testing” book. Here’s what’s new in this increment: I’ve added a new section under “Writing tests” Read more…
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: In the last post, I’ve talked about Extract Class refactoring pattern, Read more…
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 years ago I got this from Erik Talboom: “A private Read more…
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 on accessors. Other posts include: We talked about refactoring Read more…
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” defined legacy code as code that doesn’t have tests, and Read more…