Category Archives: coding

That’s that one covered.

Posted on March 17, 2009 by mike

Almost every project I have worked on over the last 6 years has incorporated a code coverage analysis tool into the build. Most of them have failed the build if the level of coverage has not reached a pre-defined standard … Continue reading →

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Don’t spike till it hurts

Posted on December 10, 2008 by mike

Out of a spike, nothing but the newly acquired knowledge should be part of the final solution. Both technology and technical creativity move along at a quick pace and people are always looking for better ways to solve their particular … Continue reading →

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Read my mind not my code

Posted on May 16, 2008 by mike

I was pairing with James Pott the other day (welcome to Gigantiq, James) when we had an interesting mini-squabble. We were writing a test to state that we expected a class at a layer boundary to catch a SQLException and … Continue reading →

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