Category: Code Research
We are inquisitive by nature, and here is our collection of investigations and problem solving when doing some deep code research.
What is Code Review? – Guidelines and Best Practices
July 19, 2021 9 minutes read Code review is the process of mandating systematically one or several developers to review the code written by another developer in other to detects...
Advanced Code Search : A Case Study
January 16, 2019 3 minutes read This morning I stumbled on a complex test to write. The need was to create and show a custom Form (written with Windows Form)...
Self Documenting Code vs. Comments? Turns Out It’s Both or Neither
November 20, 2018 1 minutes read It’s been about a month since my last research post, and I’ve been musing about the next topic. What should it be? Well, I’ve...
Extension Methods and the Decline of Traditional OOP
October 9, 2018 1 minutes read A bunch of years ago, I wrote a post on my own personal blog titled, “Why I Don’t Like C# Extension Methods.” Over the...
Autofac: A Detailed Look Under the Hood at Its Code Quality
July 31, 2018 1 minutes read In case you haven’t seen it, I’ve been diving ever-further down the code research rabbit hole. Today it brings me to the Autofac codebase...
Log4net vs NLog: A Comparison of How They Affect Codebases
June 12, 2018 1 minutes read Ah, the old “versus” Google search. Invariably, you’re in the research stage of some decision when you type this word into a search engine. ...
What Makes a Codebase Acquirable?
May 15, 2018 1 minutes read What makes a codebase acquirable? This is the rare question that affects software developers, managers, and executives in a surprisingly similar way. And that’s...
Moq: A Detailed Look at Its Code Quality
April 17, 2018 7 minutes read In case you haven’t seen it, I’ve been doing a series of research-oriented posts for this blog. This is going to be in the...
Functional C# Improves Your Design Without Making Your Code Cleaner, Exactly
March 20, 2018 2 minutes read Today I offer another one of the code research posts we’ve been doing. If you want more backstory on the series, check out the...
Functional Programming Makes Your Code Not OO…And That’s It
February 13, 2018 2 minutes read Over the course of the fall and winter, I’ve been gaining momentum with code research posts. Today, I bring that momentum to bear on...
Unit Tests Correlate With Desirable Codebase Properties
January 23, 2018 2 minutes read Today, I give you the third post in a series about how unit tests affect codebases. The first one wound up getting a lot...
The Unit Test Effect Study, Refined
December 21, 2017 2 minutes read About a month ago, I wrote a post about how unit tests affect (and apparently don’t affect) codebases. That post turned out to be...
Unit Testing Doesn’t Affect Codebases the Way You Would Think
November 22, 2017 2 minutes read I’ve just wrapped up another study. (The last one was about singletons, if you’re interested.) This time, I looked at unit testing and the...
The Singleton Design Pattern: Impact Quantified
October 26, 2017 3 minutes read This post has been about a month in the offing. Back in August, I wrote about what the singleton pattern costs you. This prompted...