Unit tests become more valuable if they are expressive and flexible. A good unit test should not only test your code, but also document it. Creating expressive and flexible unit tests is not always easy however. The reason of this is that there’s an...
Note: I have posted a follow-up post with some corrections to this post, thanks to some comments made on Reddit: A brief comparison of AOP techniques [https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2013/05/27/a-brief-comparison-of-fundamental-aop-techniques/] Let me start with saying that in this post I will...
Dividing an application in N layers is considered a standard and a best practice. It is often thought that this automatically creates a decoupled application. However, just creating layers doesn’t make your code loosely coupled. A typical N-layer application Let’s take a simple...
Namespaces In most programming languages we know the concept of** namespaces (or packages)**.****Namespaces allow us to group code and help us to avoid name-collisions. In c# for example you have this declaration namespace MyNameSpace { public class MyClass { } } If you want to use MyClass, you...
Often I see problems arise when people try to tackle Javascript. Taking a certain behavior for granted can get them frustrated. Javascript has little differences but they can cause unexpected results if not taken into account. One of those differences is the way it handles...
