Naming is one of the most difficult tasks of development. My last team debated names of things because communication is crucial, but it is a challenge. Naming a paradigm, pattern, principle, namespace, class, variable, or whatever is an attempt to communicate with another engineer about a broader set of related ideas using a condensed term. Computers don't care what you name things in your code; It all becomes binary once it's compiled anyway.
Read MoreI carried this new found love of unit testing with me to each new workplace. I taught the passion and associated skill set to whichever colleagues would listen. At my last workplace, I declared myself the _Unit Test Evangelist_ and taught my team everything I knew, and together we improved on the knowledge and skills I brought with me. We had great philosophical discussions on how to think of approaching legacy code with tests, and what kind of tests were the most important to write in various situations.
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