https://riley.thecsillags.com/categories/abstraction/ Recent content in Abstraction on about:rileycsillag fka drewcsillag Hugo en-us Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:23:52 -0400 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2014-11-05-dry-isnt-free/ Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:23:52 -0400 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2014-11-05-dry-isnt-free/ <p>In <a href="https://riley.thecsillags.com/cult-of-abstraction/">The Cult Of Abstraction</a> I railed against the over-use of abstraction. Here, I want to talk about a particular source cause of over-abstraction I have seen (and been guilty of).</p> <!-- more --> <p>Recently, while working with another team here at Spotify, I was working through some of their test code using the <a href="https://github.com/spotify/helios/blob/master/docs/testing_framework.md">Helios Testing Framework</a>, and the harness used a surprisingly complicated tree of classes to set up the various containers it used.</p> https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2014-04-10-cult-of-abstraction/ Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:43:55 -0400 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2014-04-10-cult-of-abstraction/ <p>Given that people can get really touchy on the subject, let me state this up front: <strong>I&rsquo;m not saying we should tolerate lousy code</strong>.</p> <p>Over the course of my career, I&rsquo;ve seen something that I will call &ldquo;the cult of abstraction.&rdquo; On the surface, this sounds like a good thing, until you need to debug their code. While on the surface, it&rsquo;s all nice and pretty, and uses classic design patterns, when you actually want to find out what it does, you discover that:</p>