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April 2007 - Jimmy Bogard

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  • Swallowing exceptions is hazardous to your health

    This post was originally published here . In my last entry , I set some guidelines for re-throwing exceptions. The flip side from re-throwing exceptions is swallowing exceptions. In nearly all cases I can think of, swallowing exceptions is a Very Bad...
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  • Re-throwing exceptions

    This post was originally published here . If this hasn't happened to you already, it will in the future. And when it does, you'll tear your hair out. You're reading a defect report, an error log, or a message in an event log that tells you...
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  • Notes on defects

    This post was originally published here . Right now I'm working on defects for one version of a project, and soon to be starting development on the next version. Whenever I start work on defects, I always take a quick read from the Software Defect...
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  • Feedback

    This post was originally published here . I found a great list of items about feedback here . For a TFS version, substitute " Automaton " or "Orcas Beta 1" for "Cruise Control". Because our customer doesn't know what...
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  • Classifying tests

    This post was originally published here . When defining a testing strategy, it's important to take a step back and look at what kinds of tests we would like to develop. Each type of test has a different scope and purpose, and can be developed by different...
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  • Evils of duplication

    This post was originally published here . Everyone is guilty of using "Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V" in code. During development, we may see opportunities to duplicate code a dozen times a day. We're working on some class Foo that needs some behavior...
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  • Example of creating scope with the using statement

    This post was originally published here . The using statement is widely used for cleaning up resources, such as a database connection or file handle. To use the using statement, the variable being scoped just needs to implement IDisposable. There are...
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