by Jonathan Halder | Jan 26, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Ok, time to review the list and pick something else to start testing. I did spend some time in the article posted by Kent Beck last time: Canon TDD – by Kent Beck – Software Design: Tidy First? (substack.com) I’m going to have to review it some more...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 25, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Kent Beck, a father figure when it comes to Test Driven Development for many people, has an article on “Canon TDD”Canon TDD – by Kent Beck – Software Design: Tidy First? (substack.com) In this article, as I mentioned yesterday, the first thing...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 24, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I was watching a video with Kent Beck speaking somewhere, I’m not sure which one because there were like 3 different videos. But he was categorizing coders into “lumpers” and “splitters”. I apparently am a “splitter” because...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 23, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Given the following code, I am still refactoring it: Private Function FieldChanged(Field As Access.Control) As Boolean Dim retVal As Boolean If OnlyOneFieldIsNull(Field.OldValue, Field.Value) Then retVal = True ElseIf IsNull(Field.OldValue) And IsNull(Field.Value)...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 22, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
The title is a line from an episode of Uncle Bob’s clean code video series. He advocates refactoring until you get down to 3 lines of code per function and make sure every function is doing one thing and is clearly named. At least that’s what I got out of...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 18, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I added a failing test to my system with 2 issues: One being that the new value didn’t get set to “”, and the second problem being that it did not consider Null any different than the new random value. Two problems we can tackle in our next episode. TDD – 033...
