For the last year or so my biggest antagonist has been “Save(Foo bar)”. There is usually a lot of things going wrong when that method turns up. I’m not saying that saving stuff to the persistence storage is a bad Continue reading
In this session Michael Feathers basically killed the argument based on; I don’t want tests to drive my design with a simple example base on the code smell; Iceberg class. Private methods are really hard to test, and here we Continue reading
This session was basically explaining a simple rule that regardless if you are using TDD; should be followed at all times: Never hide a TUF in a TUC What did Michael mean by that? There are two things that can Continue reading
The decorator pattern is a pretty straightforward pattern that utilizes wrapping to extend existing classes with new functionality. It’s commonly used to apply cross-cutting concerns on top of business classes, which avoids mixing that up with the business logic. Frameworks Continue reading
A common problem that often needs to be solved is to answer a question like “how did my inventory look 1 month ago?”. Keeping this kind of history, and query over it, can be tedious and is something that need Continue reading
In my last post (An architecture dilemma: Workflow Foundation or a hand rolled state machine?) I talked about the discussion around an architectural choice. The conclusion of that discussion was to hand-roll a dynamic state machine. This post is the Continue reading