As you alreay read or heard Microsoft released the ASP.Net MVC 1.0. From my perspective it is a step in the right direction. MVC is not just a pattern, it is about software quality and professional software development: In my eyes a professional software developer is concerned that there exists a seperation of concern in his program code and he wants to deliver the best possible software to the customer what he can create. Both concerns are reachable with the…
There exists a project at Microsoft which generate unit tests based of source code. The name of this interesting project is Pex.At the first time when I heard about this project I was skeptical. Where’s the value of generated tests? Doesn’t it break the “test first” approach? After I saw this screencast from the PDC 2008, I could find the answers for me:There is a value: It is often tedious to write all the unit tests with the extreme values…
There is a little differences how C# and Java implement the switch-statement. I discovered it when I want to implement a fall through in C#. In Java it is very simple: just leave the break statement at the end of the case block away. In C# it doesn’t work like that. There is no implicit fall through (with one exception: The case blocks have to be empty). You have to implement it explicit by add at the end of the…
Since the 19th february I am Sun certified Java programmer (Standard Edition 6).
When you use a code coverage tool one of the first question is what is a good code coverage. Recently I listened to different podcasts (stackoverflow, scott hanselman) where they discuss this topic. I wasn’t really surprised that there wasn’t one unique opinion.One opinion was that 100% is a good number, an other opinion was that for non-failing code it doesn’t make sense to build a test, so 100% isn’t a good number for most of the projects.The last opinion…