I have a job change coming up and I thought it would be a good idea to do an update to New High Score (update)! and New High Score! posts. Since those 2 posts I’ve had a couple work items that required updates to that monster class. Here is what the metrics look like now. […]
The purpose behind unit testing is to help ensure the code you have written performs as expected. The running of unit tests can be more effective when it is automated on a developers machine and as part of your CI/CD pipeline. Automated unit tests can also take the load off of limited QA resources by […]
Earlier this week I took a coding test and the first task in the test was interesting and alittle fun to complete. At the start you are given a text file with integers (one per line) that are used as an input into another process. This process has been failing because of problems with the […]
I’ve been kicking the tires on the Command Query Seperation principle/pattern lately. I’ve been using the CQS-Sample as a starting point. So far, the approach to breaking things down into Commands and Queries is pretty slick and much easier to unit test. The interfaces are used for dependency injection with an IoC container like SimpleIoC (which comes with MVVMLight). […]
Here’s the scenario… I have 3 referees around a powerlifting platform. Each has a set of 4 switches in their hand that is used to indicate if they thought a lift was good or not. One switch indicates the lift was good and the other 3 indicate the lift was no good and the general reason […]
Have you ever had to write a long series of if/then statements or a giant switch statement that extends for a page or two of your code? Want an easy way to increase the readability of your code, increase it’s maintainability index, and decrease it’s cyclomatic complexity? Let’s see an example problem and then a […]