October 2007 - Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#]

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Optimal Encapsulation

There is a very simple thing to do to rationalize a code base: making sure that every methods, fields and types have an optimal visibility. For example, if a method is declared internal but is not used outside its declaring type, it should be declared private. For such method the private visibility is...

Published Wed, Oct 31 2007 9:57 PM by Patrick Smacchia
Refactoring estimation

As every team that cares for quality and agility, we (the NDepend team) are constantly refactoring the code we modify. Since NDepend became a professional tool (feb 2007), it is mandatory to cover at least 98% of the code refactored with automatic tests. Of course 100% is prefereable but it is sometime...

Published Tue, Oct 23 2007 11:23 AM by Patrick Smacchia
A free library to handle common and complex path operations

I just release the library NDepend.Helpers.FilePathDirectory on CodePlex. NDepend.Helpers.FilePathDirectory is the library used by the tool NDepend to handle common path operations. Benefits of the NDepend.Helpers.FilePathDirectory over the .NET Framework class System.IO.Path include: Strongly typed...

Published Thu, Oct 18 2007 2:55 PM by Patrick Smacchia

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Simplify your unit test code with some C# anonymous methods

While writing some unit test to check that an event was indeed triggered, I figured out that anonymous methods can be a great help to avoid writing some mock handler methods. Here is the case. I have a class Foo that implements the System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged interface. This interface...

Published Fri, Oct 12 2007 5:51 PM by Patrick Smacchia
Unit Test vs. Debug.Assert()

How should your automatic tests behave when they are executing an assertion through System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert (…)? I have been mulling over this question because by default, the tool TestDriven.NET ignored my assertions. Concretely, while executing tests with TD.NET, the Assertion Failed! window...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2007 7:23 PM by Patrick Smacchia
How to isolate your integration tests from your unit tests ?

Recently, we needed to isolate our integration tests from our unit tests. They were mixed in the same test project and we wanted to avoid the cost of executing integration tests while executing our unit tests. Integration tests takes longer to be executed because they are identified as tests that are...

Published Fri, Oct 5 2007 11:39 AM by Patrick Smacchia
Why is it useful to count the number of Lines Of Code (LOC) ?

My previous post explained How to count the LOC of your .NET application and Tim B and Keith answered that LOC should never be counted because it is not useful. I don’t agree at all. Often developers get stressed when we talk about LOC because some company unfortunatly use LOC as a yardstick to assess...

Published Fri, Oct 5 2007 8:05 AM by Patrick Smacchia
How do you count your number of Lines Of Code (LOC) ?

Do you count method signature declaration? Do you count lines with only bracket? Do you count several lines when a single method call is written on several lines because of a high number of parameters? Do you count ‘namespaces’ and ‘using namespace’ declaration? Do you count interface and abstract methods...

Published Wed, Oct 3 2007 11:51 AM by Patrick Smacchia
Encapsulate your Fields at object level

There is one interesting detail of modern OOP language (C#, Java, VB.NET, C++…) that often developers are not aware of: the ‘private encapsulation’ applies at class level and not at object level. For example, in the following program, we can see that the object foo1 is able to change the private state...

Published Wed, Oct 3 2007 11:10 AM by Patrick Smacchia

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Optimal Encapsulation

Refactoring estimation

A free library to handle common and complex path operations

Simplify your unit test code with some C# anonymous methods

Unit Test vs. Debug.Assert()

How to isolate your integration tests from your unit tests ?

Why is it useful to count the number of Lines Of Code (LOC) ?

How do you count your number of Lines Of Code (LOC) ?

Encapsulate your Fields at object level