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Acronyms and Ubiquitous Language
Acronyms are often employed within organizations as a way to abbreviate frequently used phrases in an attempt to expedite communication. Unfortunately, their use often does the exact opposite. Many programming language style guides discourage the use of acronyms. For instance, … Continue reading
How To Produce Bug-Free Software
Many are resigned to the fact that all software is destined to contain some “bugs”, but did you know it’s possible (and arguably pretty easy) to always produce “bug-free” software? In this article, I’ll explain how. Terms To begin, let’s … Continue reading
Dependency Management in .Net: install2
Inspired by Rob Reynolds’ awesome post on extending NuGet’s command line, I decided to create my own extension for facilitating application-level, build-time retrieval of external dependencies along with all transitive dependencies. I struggled a bit with what to call the … Continue reading
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Dependency Management in .Net: Get
[Update: This article refers to a tool which will no longer be maintained. Until such time as NuGet is updated to naively support these capabilities, consider using the plug-in described here.] In my last article, I demonstrated how my team … Continue reading
Dependency Management in .Net: Using NuGet without Visual Studio
In my last article, I discussed some of my previous experiences with dependency management solutions and set forth some primary objectives I believe a dependency management tool should facilitate. In this article, I’ll show how I’m currently leveraging NuGet’s command … Continue reading
Dependency Management in .Net
I started my career as a programmer developing on Unix platforms, primarily writing applications in ANSI C and C++. Due to a number of factors, including the platform dependency of C/C++ libraries, the low-level nature of the language and the … Continue reading
Effective Tests: Acceptance Tests
In the last installment of our series, we discussed the topic of Context Obscurity along with strategies for avoiding the creation of obscure tests. As the final topic of this series, we’ll take an introductory look at the practice of … Continue reading
Effective Tests: Avoiding Context Obscurity
In the last installment of our series, we looked at the Expected Object pattern as a way to reduce code duplication, eliminate the need to add test-specific equality concerns to production code and to aid in clarifying the intent of … Continue reading
Introducing the Expected Objects Library
Introduced in the Effective Test Series, the Expected Object pattern is a technique involving the encapsulation of test-specific logic within a specialized type designed to compare its configured state against that of another object. Use of the Expected Object pattern … Continue reading
Effective Tests: Expected Objects
In the last installment of the Effective Tests series, the topic of Custom Assertions was presented as a strategy for helping to clarify the intent of our tests. This time we’ll take a look at another test pattern for improving … Continue reading