Reflections on TDD and Software Design – Part 2
In part 1 I talked about the key aspects of my TDD practice from a workflow pov, in this final part I will talk about the more tricky aspects of TDD – scope and design.
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Reflections on TDD and Software Design – Part 1
Having recently completed several weeks of pairing with a junior engineer on one of my teams, I came away with some reflections on the practice of TDD and its effect on design that I want to share.
Revisiting Essential Elements of the Ports and Adapters Architecture Style
I will attempt to define each element of the style a bit and also show some C# code examples to illustrate the points
On Software Architecture Decisions, Evolution and Engineering
Deliberate and thoughtful architectural decisions that solve real business problems and mitigate enough of the real risks, is the RIGHT and the MIDDLE PATH way to go.
Converting an ASP.NET Core MVC App to Blazor SPA – Part 2 (The Frontend)
Given the fact that there is no shortage of SPA frameworks and libraries like Angular, React, Vue, Knockout ad inifitum, for building the new frontend app for my app, I decided to go with Blazor.
Converting an ASP.NET Core MVC App to Blazor SPA – Part 1 (The Backend)
I have a personal expense tracking app that for the last few months I’d been working to migrate away from MVC towards more modern client apps whilst reusing the backend code and logic.
Mars Rover Programming Kata using DDD+TDD+Ports and Adapters
A few weeks ago I came across this Mars Rover programming challenge/kata and being a bit of a space buff, I thought I will take a crack at it.
Some Heuristics for Mocking vs State Verification in TDD
In this post I will share some of the TDD heuristics that I have found useful on when you should use mocking to verify interactions and when should you resort to state verification.
Implementing Hexagonal Ports and Adapters Architectural Style
Many articles talk about the what of this style but in my view, not enough talk about the how. In this post, I am going to try and show one way to actually structure the solution to be more in line with the hexagonal ports and adapters style.
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