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Ivory tower policies or mandates are counter productive
I am sure that most of you have heard the term ‘Ivory Tower Architect’ and most of have a mental image of what this means. To me, when I hear the team I think of a person or team of washed up, has...
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Refactoring Project Structure is just as important as Refactoring Code
We talk about how important it is to keep your code in working order, but no one ever really talks about keeping the container for your code in working order --- Your Project Solutions.Per Wikipedia...
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You know you buy into Testing and Testabilty when you wrap a singleton simply...
I am a little bored so I thought I would write a nice fluent interface around the Performance Counter crap that is part of .net. I know, I know the world does not really need another Fluent Interface...
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Throw away and rebuild or refactor from within
The other day on Twitter there was a stream whether it is better to completely scrap an applications code base and start over, or refactor from within. Now I do want to state right now:The information...
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Tests are not ‘Tasks’ you put on a backlog…
Today I had a conversation with our ‘scrum of scrum’ masters (we have 7 different scrum teams on our product team of 60+) and he asked me why someone would provide ‘developer tests’ as a task for the...
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Wow, the hatred for ‘var’ lives on
Here we are almost 2 full years since the var keyword was released to the wild, and only a few short months (I hope) till the next release of the .net framework and still the hatred for the var keyword...
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Quantity is NOT a measure of Quality
Today I was asked what I thought about asking each of our feature teams to report the total number of new unit tests created during their iteration. My knee-jerk reaction was to ask the person WTF...
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Your unit test may smell if…….!
If you find yourself using reflection in your unit test to push 'stub’ data into it your test just may smell. Now there are times (especially when dealing with legacy code) that you need use...
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The Sky is falling, the Sky is falling…. Or is it?
I assume everyone is familiar with the children's book Chicken Little where the chicken little had an acorn fall on her head and she just assume the entire sky was falling so she ran to the king to...
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Testing only the code of value
I am 99% sure I have had a post like this in the past, but my google-foo was weak today and I could not find it. Do not let anyone blow smoke up your back side, testing is expensive, testing takes...
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Without Context everything is suspect
Over the weekend I was having a conversation with my wife and we were not communicating on the same wave length. After a few minutes of talking in circles it dawned on us that we had not established...
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It takes real balls to do it right
It does not take a genius to realize that I (and most others on this blog) are fans of JetBrains. But what it may take a genius to realize is it takes balls to do what JetBrains does with their...
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A new feature request for C# I would like is fall through exceptions
Now before you write off this post as being ‘just another silly request’ hear me out.Right now in C# we can do the following switch( someObject ) { case Option1: case Option2: case Option3: // do...
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Noisy code does not equal clean code
Today I was having a conversation with one of the developers on my team (btw, this guy is going to be a rock star) and I made that statement to him that I thought we had some noisy code. The context...
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Its all about communication, not processes….!
We live in a world where thoughts and concepts are not getting smaller and simpler but rather they are getting larger and more complicated. Software teams in many cases are no longer all crammed into...
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