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DRY and Unit Tests don’t mix well
12 July 09 08:08 PM | MattManela | 0 Comments   

When reading source code, I sometimes come across unappealing code(sometimes even my own).  However, there is one kind of “bad code” I see quite frequently.  It is a set of unit tests which have had the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle Read More...

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Code Assumptions
01 February 09 08:13 PM | MattManela | 1 Comments   

My co-workers and I recently came across a piece of code which exposed some assumptions we had about the “correct” behavior of two functions; these assumptions turned out to be false.  The code dealt with determining if the IP of a  request Read More...

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