The Coderetreat Book
The Coderetreat Book About A couple of weeks ago I published the Coderetreat book together with Alex Bolboacă. The book is about how to facilitate and host a coderetreat event. Contents It contains plenty of…
Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 13 – Document Possible Bugs with Tests – Codecast
Document Possible Bugs with Tests – Codecast Blog post series This blog post is part of a series about legacy coderetreat and legacy code techniques you can apply during your work. Please click to see…
Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 12 – Unit Testing on Legacy Code – Codecast
Unit Testing on Legacy Code – Codecast Blog post series This blog post is part of a series about legacy coderetreat and legacy code techniques you can apply during your work. Please click to see…
Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 11 – Extract Class – Codecast
Extract Class – Codecast Blog post series This blog post is part of a series about legacy coderetreat and legacy code techniques you can apply during your work. Please click to see more sessions about…
Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 10 – Refactoring the Rule of Three – Code Cast
Refactoring the Rule of Three – code cast Blog post series This blog post is part of a series about legacy coderetreat and legacy code techniques you can apply during your work. Please click to…
Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 9 – Extract Pure Functions – Code Cast
Extract Pure Functions – code cast Blog post series This blog post is part of a series about legacy coderetreat and legacy code techniques you can apply during your work. Please click to see more…
Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 8 – Use Mocking Framework – Code Cast
Use Mocking Framework – code cast Blog post series This blog post is part of a series about legacy coderetreat and legacy code techniques you can apply during your work. Please click to see more…
Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 7 – Extract and Override – Code Cast
Extract and Override – code cast Blog post series This blog post is part of a series about legacy coderetreat and legacy code techniques you can apply during your work. Please click to see more…
Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 6 – Dependency Inversion – Code Cast
Dependency Inversion – code cast Blog post series This blog post is part of a series about legacy coderetreat and legacy code techniques you can apply during your work. Please click to see more sessions…
Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 5 – Basic Rules of Refactoring – Code Cast
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Legacy Coderetreat: Episode 4 – Add Feature on Legacy Code – Code Cast
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Legacy Coderetreat: Part 14 – Document possible Defects with tests
Document possible Defects with Tests
Blog post series
This blog post is part of a series about legacy coderetreat and legacy code techniques you can apply during your work. Please click to see more sessions about legacy code.
Purpose
When writing unit tests on legacy code, we often discover behaviours of the system that seem wrong. The main rule is: DO NOT change the production code without being absolutely sure that the change does not introduce defects. Instead we need to mark all the tests that characterize a possible defective behaviour. Let’s look at some ways to document possible defects with tests.
