A kingdom for a developer

So this happened a few years ago in the days between Christmas and New Year. I was using the slow days after Christmas to get some work done in the office when suddenly a guy from the operations team came running down the hallways shouting "a developer, a developer, a kingdom for a developer"!

Do you really want to properly implement TAP?

There is one part of implementing an API using TAP that I've always found cumbersome and that is the guideline to throw argument exceptions before the task is started. I've always been glad that I never had to make the call since I haven't been developing externally available libraries, but recently I had an interesting discussion at work that made me reevaluate my standpoint. Maybe...

Never hide a TUF in a TUC

This slogan (never hide a TUF in a TUC) was introduced (to me at least) in 2010 by Michael Feathers. Turns out it is a pretty good tool to explain and steer people in the right direction when they are new to writing unit tests. But what is TUF and TUC?

Faking 3rd party dependencies

When it comes to dealing with third party dependencies in my code I've used the same trick for a long time. But I was recently introduced to a new trick that I have mixed feelings about.