https://riley.thecsillags.com/categories/dry/ Recent content in DRY 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>