Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
We did a
rewrite of a truly wacky application component last year that supplied a steady stream of head scratchers. Today I walked back into the room from a late lunch and overheard a customer support manager getting a little hot under the collar over some unexpected, strange behavior in the system. My colleague was explaining what the system was doing when the support manager blurted out "why is it doing that?"
All of us in unison shouted at the speaker phone "because that's what [old system] did!"
Oddly enough she didn't care for that answer, but we were able to turn that rule off easily enough in the configuration.
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
