Virtually everyone claims to be doing Unit Testing, but there is a surprising amount of disagreement as to how unit testing is defined. Let us see what the authorities on the subject have to say about it. What follows is mainly quotations from reputable sources, with some minimal commentary by me.
It is not a law.
It never was a law.
An observation is all that it ever was, or a prediction, but not a law.
And surprise, it does not hold true anymore.
I just wrote a code review comment that I feel particularly smug about.
The code I was reviewing:
class PointClouds ...
My comment:
A software testing tool is presented, which uses dependency analysis to greatly optimize the process of running tests.
Biological anthropologists generally agree that humans evolved reasoning to
facilitate hunting together as a group; however, there are many other species
that hunt in packs, and yet reasoning is unique to humans. Therefore, in order
to explain reasoning, it is not enough to consider how it was beneficial to
us; we also need to consider what enabled reasoning to emerge specifically in
humans as opposed to any other species.
I have a hypothesis which attempts to explain how this happened.
While working on code in the context of a certain task, a programmer often discovers some preexisting quality issue. When this happens, there is a choice to be made:
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What causes homosexuality? The predominant understanding is that the causes are genetic, but this seems to be in conflict with the notion of natural selection: an individual who does not reproduce is a dead-end for the genes that they carry; therefore, the 'gay gene' should have gone extinct. A number of hypotheses have been proposed, attempting to resolve this paradox, but they are not very convincing. In this post I present a couple of my own hypotheses, which I believe do a better job at resolving the paradox.
How to make the Ju52 cocktail:
In a tall glass with no ice, mix the following:
2 parts coffee liqueur (e.g. Kahlúa (W))
2 parts cream liqueur (e.g. Baileys Irish Cream (W))
1 part orange liqueur (e g. Grand Marnier (W))
4 parts cold milk.
The special guy that I am, I had to go invent my own cocktail. As its name betrays, it is similar to B52 (W). In fact, the Ju52 is just B52 with cold milk instead of ice.
The replacement of ice with cold milk imparts the following benefits to the drink:
It is becoming customary in western societies to ask people in various settings to state their preferred pronouns. It started among younger people of the particularly woke persuasion, and it is spreading everywhere. When I find myself in such a setting, I do of course go along, because doing otherwise would be awkward, but I hope that it is only a fad which will eventually go away. While waiting to see how it pans out, let me describe a few issues I have with it.
Visual Studio is a capricious product, and its "Solution" subsystem is especially capricious. When you look at what options are available you might think you have a great degree of freedom to structure things the way you want, but as you will inevitably (and painfully) find out later, many things have to be done in precisely one, entirely undocumented way, or else there will be pain of the worst kind: Visual Studio will malfunction either without any error message, or with error messages that are completely unhelpful for locating and fixing the problem.
Here is a list of things I have (painfully) found out over the years.
