by Jonathan Halder | Oct 28, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
You write a test for the behavior you want. So far so good. You have to figure out how to interface with your system to write the test though. Today, I was adding a new type of status called “Internal Hold” for an order, and the line items each can also...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 17, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning
Back 6 months ago I was asked to add new fields to check for the validity of a line item on an order. This caused me to go through a rather extensive process to break dependencies on an Access form so that I could test it without having to launch the form and build an...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 8, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
If you haven’t had the pleasure of Uncle Bob Martin books or videos, you’re missing out. I’d recommend a search on YouTube for Uncle Bob’s Clean Code. I watched a lot of his videos when I had an O’Reilly subscription and that led me to...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 11, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Programming with AI You can shortcut some work by asking a large language model (LLM) how to do something. If someone else out there has done it and the AI LLM has trained on it, it might even do a decent job. Today I needed to write a function that would take a...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 19, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Yesterday’s message: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 4 | Access JumpStart Here is the full code I am discussing: ‘@TestMethod(“DeleteAction”) Private Sub GivenConcreteGroupDeleteTriggered_WhenReadOnlyStatusType_RequirePassword() On Error...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 16, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Yesterday’s message: Writing tests for legacy code – Part 3 | Access JumpStart Before diving into the next piece of the function, the Act, here is the full code: ‘@TestMethod(“DeleteAction”) Private Sub...
