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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Commit Messages
When reviewing a commit I’m not interested in what you did. A commit is a codebase transformation. I’m interested in what will happen to my codebase when I apply your commit. Bad “I did this” form: I had a cup of coffee, went for a walk, and changed some code. Better “This commit does this” form: Adds unmap() to the command map API. A commit message should describe the commit, not the process you went through to create it … Continue reading
Unit Testing: Why I prefer assertThat()
Consider: [Test] public function null_criteria_should_not_match():void { assertFalse(“passing null should return false”, instance.match(null)); } When reading the test above I have to do a lot of scanning.