Thursday, 4 November 2021

A question about the overhead of OOP in CFML

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G'day: A question cropped up on the CFML Slack channel the other day. My answer was fairly long-winded so I decided to post it here as...
Saturday, 30 October 2021

TDD: writing a micro testing framework, using the framework to test itself as I build it

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G'day: Being back in CFML land, I spend a lot of time using trycf.com to write sample code. Sometimes I just want to see how ColdFusi...
Thursday, 21 October 2021

Unit testing back-fill question: how thorough to be?

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G'day: I'm extracting this from a thread I started on the CFML Slack channel (it's not a CFML-specific question, before you br...
Sunday, 5 September 2021

Testing: reasoning over "testing implementation detail" vs "testing features"

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G'day: I can't see how this article will be a very long one, as it only really dwells on one concept I had to reason through befor...
Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Test coverage: it's not about lines of code

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G'day A coupla days ago someone shared this Twitter status with me: I'll just repeat the text here for google & copy-...
Tuesday, 3 August 2021

CFML: static methods and properties

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G'day: Context In Lucee 5.0 (so: ages ago) and ColdFusion 2021 (so: you know… just now), support for static properties and methods ...
Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Switch refactoring on the road to polymorphism

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G'day: A while back I wrote an article " Code smells: a look at a switch statement ". That deals with a specific case which ...