Tools vs Experience

11. February 2017 Uncategorized 0
One of the first major mistakes I made as a software engineer involved strings.  It happened about 15 years ago. I had written a tool to log out data link traffic to an encrypted file. That part was done, I could open up the file and see a bunch of gibberish. It was now time ...

The Meaning of Unit Test Data

07. February 2017 Uncategorized 0
The data you use in your unit test communicates messages you might not be meaning to communicate.  For the sake of this post, unit testing means any tests written to test a specific portion, or unit, of code. It does not mean Test Driven Development, whether you’re writing tests first or tests after, the data you ...