Articles tagged “testing”

• Topography of tests Im­por­tant note: this ar­ti­cle is writ­ten for de­vel­op­ers who don't prac­tice TDD, that is more than 99% of de­vel­op­ers I know. TDD is a very dif­fer­ent world, and a few as­ser­tions I make in this ar­ti­cle don't ap­ply there. For in­stance, my skep­ti­cism…
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• Tampering SharePoint assemblies part 1 I've in­her­it­ed a Share­Point pro­ject and I'm at the step when I start adding tests for re­gres­sion test­ing. If the au­thors of the code knew any­thing about ob­ject ori­en­ta­tion and de­sign, there would be no prob­lems at this step; but, as usu­al, they were…
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• Tampering SharePoint assemblies part 2 In the pre­vi­ous ar­ti­cle, I ex­plained the con­text of a lega­cy Share­Point code which should be test­ed. For in­stance, re­gres­sion test­ing should cov­er meth­ods such as: pub­lic string Do­Some­thing(int what­ev­er) { var urls =…
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• Gated checkins are evil I was re­cent­ly talk­ing with a de­vel­op­er about a pre-build strat­e­gy he wants to set up in his team which uses trunk-based de­vel­op­ment. His idea is that in or­der to pre­vent prob­lem­at­ic code from hit­ting the trunk in ver­sion con­trol, a client-side…
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• Tricky, tricky dates Any pro­gram­mer who worked with dates would tell that dates are a com­plex sub­ject. Time zones, UTC, day­light sav­ing time, leap years, and, my fa­vorite of all—leap sec­onds that “are not en­tire­ly…
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• When testing is not fun enough On reg­u­lar ba­sis, some col­league starts com­plain­ing in an in­for­mal dis­cus­sion about the low qual­i­ty of some pro­ject he's work­ing on. It has to do with code qual­i­ty, or lack of tests, or both. Every…
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• What targetting 100% code coverage taught me I was re­cent­ly in charge of draft­ing a new sys­tem for a cus­tomer. I took it as an op­por­tu­ni­ty to demon­strate some of the ap­proach­es that should lead to high­er qual­i­ty soft­ware, com­pared to what the…
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• Taking screenshot of a QOpenGLWidget containing text Work­ing on a Qt ap­pli­ca­tion that uses OpenGL to draw lines and poly­gons, and cpp::QPainter to draw text, I was sur­prised to find that it is not par­tic­u­lar­ly straight­for­ward to make the ap­pli­ca­tion…
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