This is a huge discussion and the debate could be similar to Tab vs Spaces on how and where should we put the configuration variables such as connections strings and environment specific variables. There are three main choices here Web.config transformations Read More …
Another quick video about adding tests to an existing project. If you haven’t seen last time’s video go check it out now! The project I’m working on is a Micro ORM and you can find it on Debonair. To Break Read More …
This is the second video of me adding tests to a real working project. You can take a look my last video here. First things first, in the previous video I added asserts to a set of test that where already built Read More …
This is the first of a series of short videos about adding tests to already exsiting software. For this videos I picked an interesting Micro ORM project called Debonair, you can find more info about the project in the Github repo. Read More …
This is part 2 of a series on refactoring, you should also read part one where we introduce refactorings and why you should do it Doing a refactoring in any BIG project can be a frightening experience, you know that Read More …
In this article we will do a short introduction to refactoring. What it is, why you should do it and when. I think that refactoring is an important part of the development cycle and that every programmer should do it. Read More …
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. When I read The Churn by Uncle Bob Martin I started questioning if what he stated was the real problem we have in our profession. I started thinking about my career and that of other people I Read More …
After building the Golden Master in the previous iteration we are sure that we wont introduce any bugs during our refactoring phase: we built a safety net that will prevent us form falling into the regression trap. The next refactoring I’m going Read More …
Setting up NUnit 3 in Visual Studio is a simple task, but if you don’t know what you need to do, there are a few ways you can easily get stuck. To help you avoid loosing time I put together Read More …
Building a test suite for legacy code can be daunting, so most of us usually approach legacy code in two different ways: If it ain’t broke don’t fix it Refactor without automated tests and hope for the best But there Read More …