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Access Programming – What I do and Why (source control part 3)

by Jonathan Halder | Dec 5, 2023 | MS Access

I’ve been discussing how I use version control in 2 previous emails / articles which you can find here: Access Programming – What I do and Why (source control) | Access JumpStart Access Programming – What I do and Why (source control part 2) | Access JumpStart...

TDD – 012 – Passing Code vs Overthinking

by Jonathan Halder | Dec 4, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

A big part of Test Driven Development is to write code that passes a test without overthinking things. In my last test I wrote, it’s pretty clear it will not stand up to the next couple of tests one might think of. The test is making sure that the count of...

TDD – 011 – Testing variable types and refactoring

by Jonathan Halder | Dec 1, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

I am currently in a failing test state: I see that the expected and actual values are not the same type in the test. This means that I asserted a 1 of type Long would be a 1 of type Integer. I believe that’s the default type of 1. VBA is usually pretty nice in...
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