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"https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/surviving-legacy-code-with-golden-master-and-sampling", "published_at": "2014-09-28T12:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf508676cd", "title": "\"I Like Mocks, But I Distrust Spies\"", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/i-like-mocks", "published_at": "2014-09-15T08:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf513aa56b", "title": "Let Code Flow Towards Better Design", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/let-code-flow-towards-encapsulation", "published_at": "2014-08-22T16:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf515ba81d", "title": "Abstraction: The Goal of Modular Design", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/abstraction-the-goal-of-modular-design", "published_at": "2014-08-01T16:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf515e774f", "title": "Refactoring CSS: Not Impossible", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/refactoring-css-not-impossible", "published_at": "2014-05-30T17:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf51cd87dc", "title": "How TDD Affects My Designs", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/how-tdd-affects-my-designs", "published_at": "2014-05-22T17:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf526097cd", "title": "The Curious Case of Tautological TDD", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/the-curious-case-of-tautological-tdd", "published_at": "2014-05-14T18:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf531d13c3", "title": "Musings on Refactoring as Waste", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/musings-on-refactoring-as-waste", "published_at": "2014-04-22T15:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf53fc0f7e", "title": "Google Spreadsheet as a Test-First Demo Environment", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/google-spreadsheet-as-a-test-first-demo-environment", "published_at": "2014-03-25T13:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf542c75d4", "title": "Putting An Age-Old Battle To Rest", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/putting-an-age-old-battle-to-rest", "published_at": "2013-12-07T07:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf54e8fdd2", "title": "Beyond Mock Objects", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/beyond-mock-objects", "published_at": "2013-11-23T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf552a044d", "title": "Losing time to Faraday", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/losing-time-to-faraday", "published_at": "2013-11-17T18:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf55d0f293", "title": "The Eternal Struggle Between Business and Programmers", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/the-eternal-struggle-between-business-and-programmers", "published_at": "2013-11-11T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf5623cabf", "title": "The Pain of Implicit Dependencies", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/the-pain-of-implicit-dependencies", "published_at": "2013-10-14T15:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf56c2967b", "title": "Listening to your code does not mean conducting a seance", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/listening-to-your-code-does-not-mean-conducting-a-seance", "published_at": "2013-06-27T14:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf56e44800", "title": "Primitive Obsession Obsession", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/primitive-obsession-obsession", "published_at": "2013-03-04T16:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf56f9808e", "title": "Modularity. Details. Pick One.", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/modularity-details-pick-one", "published_at": "2013-01-31T18:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf57a8ea0e", "title": "Demystifying the Dependency Inversion Principle", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/consequences-of-dependency-inversion-principle", "published_at": "2013-01-29T20:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf57aa4620", "title": "The Liskov Substitution Principle Demystified", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/liskov-substitution-principle-demystified", "published_at": "2013-01-08T18:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf5867d71f", "title": "Inquisition By Contract", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/inquisition-by-contract", "published_at": "2013-01-03T18:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf589fb4fb", "title": "Publish posts later with Jekyll/Octopress", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/publish-posts-later-with-jekyll-slash-octopress", "published_at": "2012-12-06T16:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf59137ecd", "title": "Announcing a New Book", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/announcing-a-new-book", "published_at": "2012-12-03T18:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df2-0489-7373-bb3b-61bf59ee384b", "title": "A new twist on an old pattern", "url": "https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/a-new-twist-on-an-old-pattern", "published_at": "2012-11-19T04:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

A Tale of map and parseInt in Three Acts, or WAT You Will original ↗

19 Mar 2026

2025

Clarifying the Rule of Three in Refactoring original ↗

7 Nov 2025

Going Further with One Outcome Per Test original ↗

19 Oct 2025

2024

Saff Squeeze: Example 1 original ↗

19 Dec 2024

Refactoring Just Enough original ↗

21 Jun 2024

TDD: You're Probably Doing It Just Fine original ↗

25 Mar 2024

TDD: For Those Who Don't Know How to Design Software original ↗

8 Jan 2024

2023

A Guard Clause Is Maybe a Tiny Parser original ↗

20 Dec 2023

Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write? Revisited original ↗

17 Sept 2023

Revealing Intent: A Tiny Example original ↗

5 Sept 2023

Refactoring Test Doubles: From Stubs to Parsing original ↗

18 Jul 2023

The Power of Precise Names: An Example original ↗

28 Apr 2023

How Tests Support Refactoring original ↗

28 Feb 2023

Investing Wisely in Architecture Through Refactoring original ↗

9 Jan 2023

2022

A Matter of Interpretation: Mock Objects original ↗

27 Dec 2022

What's Not To Like About This Code? An Experiment.original ↗

20 Dec 2022

What is 'the Right' Amount of Refactoring?original ↗

22 Aug 2022

What is Refactoring?original ↗

29 Jul 2022

Why Refactoring Is Not Always a Code Smell original ↗

8 Jun 2022

Stepping Around a TDD Roadblock original ↗

11 Apr 2022

Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write?original ↗

3 Apr 2022

The Saff Squeeze original ↗

28 Mar 2022

Polynomial Kata in 46 Commits original ↗

4 Feb 2022

Modularity and Performance original ↗

8 Jan 2022

2021

Zero to nodejs on Linux original ↗

24 Aug 2021

Reading stdin and The Kotlin DSL for Gradle original ↗

14 Aug 2021

Breaking Through That First TDD Block original ↗

12 Aug 2021

Edit, Then Execute original ↗

16 Jul 2021

How I Wish I Had Some Unit Tests! An Example original ↗

11 Jul 2021

How to Write Tests For Framework Extensions?original ↗

14 Mar 2021

Abstract Test Cases, 20 Years Later original ↗

23 Feb 2021

11ty By Intention original ↗

15 Feb 2021

Removing Duplication Deftly 1 original ↗

8 Feb 2021

Deciphering An 11ty Error Message original ↗

1 Feb 2021

Too Many Ifs? Maybe.original ↗

20 Jan 2021

2020

Simulating Failure in Collaboration Tests original ↗

17 Dec 2020

A Natural Microflow in TDD original ↗

3 Aug 2020

Breaking Through Your Refactoring Rut original ↗

13 May 2020

You Don't Hate Mocks; You Hate Side-Effects original ↗

2 May 2020

Choosing Tools for Test Doubles original ↗

8 Apr 2020

Where the Hell Is My Port?! An Adventure in Elm original ↗

30 Jan 2020

2019

Emerging Implementations of An Emerging Interface: An Example original ↗

20 Jun 2019

A Contract Is Just An Understanding original ↗

14 Jun 2019

2018

Gradle Won't Run My Spock Tests original ↗

15 Nov 2018

The World's Shortest Article on (test && commit) || revert original ↗

11 Nov 2018

From Zero To NUnit With Visual Studio Code original ↗

21 Jul 2018

Removing RVM Completely original ↗

14 Jul 2018

Who Tests the Contract Tests?original ↗

9 Jul 2018

2017

I Learned Some sed original ↗

22 Dec 2017

Keep Dependency Injection Simple original ↗

10 Dec 2017

Renaming Magically With zmv original ↗

23 Nov 2017

The Myth of Advanced TDD original ↗

16 Nov 2017

Guard Rails, Not Prison Bars original ↗

18 Aug 2017

Getting Started with Contract Tests original ↗

25 Jun 2017

When Subclasses Are Ready To Die original ↗

10 May 2017

Taking a Pragmatic View of Isolated Tests original ↗

17 Mar 2017

Deploying Jekyll to Heroku using GitLab CI original ↗

13 Feb 2017

2016

No More Boilerplate Code original ↗

9 Oct 2016

How Not To Write Golden Master Tests original ↗

1 Mar 2016

A Tiny Cohesion Risk original ↗

10 Feb 2016

How Reuse Happens original ↗

4 Feb 2016

How a Smell in the Tests Points to a Risk in the Design original ↗

21 Jan 2016

Relative Include Paths and the Slow, Certain March Towards Legacy Code original ↗

12 Jan 2016

2015

Clearing Up the Integrated Tests Scam original ↗

8 Dec 2015

Designing the Entry Point original ↗

2 Dec 2015

Injecting Dependencies, Partially Applying Functions, and It Really Doesn't Matter original ↗

13 Nov 2015

How To Recover From the Integrated Tests Scam original ↗

7 Nov 2015

Null: Design Tool original ↗

29 May 2015

What Good is Subclass to Test, Anyway?original ↗

7 Apr 2015

Your Tests Are Dragging You Down original ↗

28 Mar 2015

Your Constructors are Completely Irrational original ↗

23 Mar 2015

A Real-Life Contract Test original ↗

5 Mar 2015

You Have To Know When To Stop original ↗

15 Feb 2015

2014

Learning Tests for POSTing Email from Mailgun original ↗

27 Oct 2014

IDEA Crashes on Launch on Yosemite original ↗

19 Oct 2014

Gaining Confidence in Code that Generates HTML original ↗

12 Oct 2014

Clean Up Those Nasty Junk Drawers original ↗

4 Oct 2014

Surviving Legacy Code with Golden Master and Sampling original ↗

28 Sept 2014

"I Like Mocks, But I Distrust Spies"original ↗

15 Sept 2014

Let Code Flow Towards Better Design original ↗

22 Aug 2014

Abstraction: The Goal of Modular Design original ↗

1 Aug 2014

Refactoring CSS: Not Impossible original ↗

30 May 2014

How TDD Affects My Designs original ↗

22 May 2014

The Curious Case of Tautological TDD original ↗

14 May 2014

Musings on Refactoring as Waste original ↗

22 Apr 2014

Google Spreadsheet as a Test-First Demo Environment original ↗

25 Mar 2014

2013

Putting An Age-Old Battle To Rest original ↗

7 Dec 2013

Beyond Mock Objects original ↗

23 Nov 2013

Losing time to Faraday original ↗

17 Nov 2013

The Eternal Struggle Between Business and Programmers original ↗

11 Nov 2013

The Pain of Implicit Dependencies original ↗

14 Oct 2013

Listening to your code does not mean conducting a seance original ↗

27 Jun 2013

Primitive Obsession Obsession original ↗

4 Mar 2013

Modularity. Details. Pick One.original ↗

31 Jan 2013

Demystifying the Dependency Inversion Principle original ↗

29 Jan 2013

The Liskov Substitution Principle Demystified original ↗

8 Jan 2013

Inquisition By Contract original ↗

3 Jan 2013

2012

Publish posts later with Jekyll/Octopress original ↗

6 Dec 2012

Announcing a New Book original ↗

3 Dec 2012

A new twist on an old pattern original ↗

19 Nov 2012