On software development and anything else I find interesting…
I’ve been away from C++ for the last three years, this is the longest we’ve been apart.Luckily I’ve been given a chance to sharpen my skills and in the last few weeks I’ve been working exclusively in C++. During our time apart C++ has grown, and changed – this is not your father’s C++ it’s … Continue reading Why I like C++ 11 – auto & nullptr
A while back during a presentation on unit tests a member of the audience asked me a question I hope never to answer ever again – “So these unit tests you’re talking about, are they written by developers?” The reason I don’t particularly care for that question is that developers think that unit tests (and … Continue reading Why TDD is good for testers
It seems I’m in a tip giving mood this week. I’d like to tell a story of a bug we had in Isolator… Last a user complained about a bug that prevented one of VS2010 cronies to work properly. After investigating this issue he found out that using Isolator caused this code: [MTAThread()]static void … Continue reading Why profiler API causes my .NET application to run as STA?
In 1969 a car with no license plates was parked with it’s hood up in the Bronx. Within minutes it was vandalized and stripped. That car was part of an experiment to test a theory called “broken windows”. The Broken windows theory The original broken windows theory was introduced in 1982: Consider a building with … Continue reading Broken windows and software development
There is always a balance between readability and maintainability when writing unit tests.I hate hearing a fellow developer say – “the task took me X time more because I had to fix 100+ tests because I refactored my production code”. This means I’m always on the look for ways to decrease the tests maintenance overhead.While … Continue reading On object creation and unit tests
Today I attended a meeting of the Software Craftsmanship in Israel group with Corey Haines. Corey gave a talk about agile practices and how to decide which to choose. The talk went something like this: Our objective is to reduce the time between doing something and doing the right thing and the time between doing … Continue reading SCISR Meeting with Corey Haines
It’s no secret that the .NET community has a lot to learn as far as unit testing is concerned. One of the contributing factors to unit testing adaptation is tool support – it’s not secret that if developers can crate and run tests easily form the comfort of their development environment (i.e. Visual Studio). But … Continue reading Rapid Dev – a new unit testing tool is born
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