Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Unicode handling and security

http://www.haypocalc.com/tmp/unicode-2011-03-25/html/issues.html

Lessons Learned in Software Refactoring

A couple quick lessons I learned while refactoring: (these are also useful ideas for how testers might model bug appearances or doubt representativeness of one or several results, overcoming representativeness bias).

  • Ask "where else?"
    • Search for the affected function names
    • Loop back to the top of the file
    • Take a moment to slow down and ask if there are other changes
    • Is this statement or construct unique or does it occur elsewhere?
  • When adding something in a lot of places, wrap around until you come back to a starting point.
    • Don't just go to the end of file.
  • Ask how this refactor, even if small, might affect the quality criteria (see CRUSSPIC STMPL)