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Beautiful Software
I ran into this quote that reminded me that software development is indeed a craft. I love when software can be described as beautiful. “Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they’re much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, … Continue reading
Coding Practice: Automated Build and Deployment
Coding Practice: What should I do if my project doesn’t automatically build and deploy to assembly? As early in your project as possible, you should implement automatic build and deployment to your shakeout and assembly environments with a target … Continue reading
Coding Practice: Unit Test Coverage
Coding Practice: How much code should I expect to cover with my unit tests? This is another one of those questions where the answer is “it depends”. A hard fast rule of thumb is that you should … Continue reading
Coding Practice: Unit Testing – Arrange, Act, Assert
Coding Practice: How should I layout my unit tests? Just as you would when working with any code, your objective is readability and ease of comprehension. A coding layout for unit tests that achieves this objective is … Continue reading
Coding Practice: Unit Test Execution Time
Coding Practice: What do I do when my unit tests take more than 6 seconds to run? Unit tests should take less than 1 second to run per test. When recently looking at a leading open source eCommerce project, … Continue reading
Coding Practice: Analyzing Code Clones
Coding Practice: Why doesn’t someone make a tool to help you detect code duplication and opportunities for refactoring? Someone does. In fact, it is built into Visual Studio 2012 (Ultimate and Premium editions) under the Analyze menu > Analyze Solution … Continue reading
Coding Practice: Unit Test to Code Ratio
Coding Practice: What should I do if my lines of unit test code is greater than the lines of code being tested? This is a good sign. You should expect to have a code-to-test ratio of 1:2 (i.e. twice as … Continue reading
Coding Practice: LINQ Complexity
Coding Practice: Which has higher cyclomatic complexity, a one line LINQ query or 20 lines of code? Well, it depends. Take the single line of code below as an example: This one line LINQ query has a cyclomatic complexity of … Continue reading
Coding Practice: YAGNI
Coding Practice: What is the minimum code needed to do a task? There is this concept of calling YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It) on a chunk of code that you have written to do something above and beyond … Continue reading
Coding Practice: Dependency Injection
Coding Practice: Why is using “new” a bad thing? The usage of “new” in a class can be an indicator of tight coupling, which can lead to code that is difficult to test and easily broken by change. Consider how … Continue reading
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