Durée de lecture : environ 3 minutesI had to change some of my habits due to me recently migrating my desktop PC to Bazzite. In particular for .Net development : I do not use Visual Studio or Docker anymore. There are other constraints that come with Bazzite’s compartmentalisation where applications run in their own container with Read more
Durée de lecture : environ 8 minutesIntegration tests have always appeared as being slow and fragile. Slow because they imply launching APIs, network connections, database queries, etc… and fragile because any time a dependency is not available or data are modified then these tests might fail. Moreover, creating new data (e.g. with INSERTs in database) is Read more
Durée de lecture : environ 6 minutesIn a previous article, I wrote about finding sequential calls that could be parallelized. Today, I wish to address another issue with an algorithmic angle : finding and optimizing code performance issues in C#. In particular string allocations and algorithmic time complexity. Story time Just like in the previous post, Read more
Durée de lecture : environ 10 minutesWe just saw in the previous article what builders, coupled with a fluent API, could bring to the table in terms of tests’ readability. However, we quickly realised that the more complex the production code was, the higher the complexity of the technical code became. In this article, we will Read more
Durée de lecture : environ 9 minutes(In order to not overload this already dense article, we assume you’re familiar with the notion of adapters in hexagonal architecture. We will also be using words like “mock” or “stub” interchangeably because the difference does not seem clear to anyone, as this interesting discussion on StackOverflow shows. Finally, on Read more
Durée de lecture : environ 5 minutesWelcome to this series of articles about testing! It will be co-written with Benoît Maurice, colleague and friend for over 8 years now. As TDD practitioners, we cannot ignore the major daily activities that are writing and maintaining tests. Today, we do not think it is desirable nor tenable to Read more
Durée de lecture : environ 10 minutesRecently, I had to investigate a memory leak detected in our production environment. Memory leaks are a nightmare for many developers : I am no memory management expert ; however, given I know a bit about garbage collection in C# and I have a tool that can help me investigate, Read more
Durée de lecture : environ 10 minutesNow that we have covered Git’s basics, we will review some common issues and how to solve them. Lost commits, wrong branches, finding a problematic commit… I will list a few problems you will probably encounter on a regular basis and give you some tips so that you stop considering Read more
Durée de lecture : environ 6 minutesOver the past few years, Git has become one of the most used (if not THE most used) version control systems. Its success is probably due to being open source, resilient, distributed and highly supported in most continuous integration platforms. Most IDEs also integrate Git, and there are several GUIs Read more