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Red, Green, Refactor vs. Specify, Encode, Fulfill

by Jonathan Halder | Mar 17, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

I was listening to the Mob Mentality podcast on Spotify and came across this episode. Here is the YouTube link (Spotify is only audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kL_tXiNcl4 The guest, Jason Swett, was talking about Test Driven Development and those coming into...

Test Driven Development (TDD) and Forms in Microsoft Access

by Jonathan Halder | Mar 14, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

I thought I would update folks on my TDD progress using VBA in Access. I use the RubberDuckVBA Unit Testing component to create and run tests. You don’t need a fancy program or system like that to utilize automated testing, but I have enjoyed using it and the...

Refactoring Tests in RubberDuckVBA

by Jonathan Halder | Mar 5, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

Today I was refactoring some tests to make them easier to write for my application. In this application, I am testing lines on a subform to make sure they have the correct values. I used a class I created called a FormGetter which uses an interface so I can create a...

CustomTags – Basic functionality coded!

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 26, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

This is a very basic set of 2 classes to produce a CustomTags object that can take an Access Control object from a form and store an internal dictionary intended to use string keys to store string values for that tag. The ControlTags and ControlTag currently use early...

CustomTags – changing to utilize RubberDuckVBA testing

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 25, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

Ok, so to use test driven development here, I will start writing tests to describe the behaviors of the control I want and then code to make the tests pass. I copied the code from the module from last time with the TestCustomTags Sub to a new Test module I created...

The Proxy Design Pattern in Access VBA

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 17, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

I’ve been reading a book about Design Patterns. This particular book has Java sample code. It is written by Robert C Martin and is called Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns, and Practices. I had been trying to wrap my brain around separating...
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