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Making Your System Tests More Readable

When system tests are written well, they can be a source of documentation and a tool to show others how the app should behave.

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Be Expressive: How to Give Your Variables Better Names

Well named variables are one of the most useful things you can do to build a maintainable and predictable codebases. They make code seem effortless.

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Using State Tables for Testing

Using state tables for testing is great for situations where there are a variety of inputs for a function that produce different results.

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Naming Things Is Hard

It’s easy for a dev team to agree on what to name things, but their conventions won't be obvious to the software's end users, or to future developers.

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TODO Comments Don’t Work

Comments, without a large amount of maintenance overhead, tend to become stale and misleading. TODO comments are no different.

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Intro to Mocking with Moq

Mock objects allow you to mimic the behavior of classes and interfaces, letting the code in the test interact with them as if they were real.

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An Immutable Asynchronous State Holder in C#

In several projects that I have worked on over the last few years, we instituted a StateHolder class that eases the burden of managing state.

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Code Reviews as a Tool to Boost Productivity

Code reviews are a great long-term investment. They build shared knowledge, increase consistency, and make teams far more productive.

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Three Strategies for Maintaining an App on Two Platforms

My current project involves iOS and Android apps, both written natively for their platforms. Here are a few guidelines we follow to keep them in sync.

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Keep Your Temporary Hacks Temporary with a Shame.cs

Having a space to track temporary changes and known-crufty code helps me avoiding flitting between cleanup tasks, while reminding me to clean up my mess.

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How to Read Code (Eight Things to Remember)

When diving into a mature codebase for the first time, you might feel like an archaeologist. That's great—you've got a bunch of shovels at your disposal.

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How We Used a Week of Spikes to Map Out a Feature

In less than a week of strategic spiking, we were able to “de-risk” the majority of our upcoming work. We even had time to explore some other options.

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