I’m an all but retired programmer learning for fun. I used to prefix everything with the type or some abbreviation. Following the crowd. But quit the habit when finding I needed to write notes explaining the prefixes. Focussing on plain language descriptive names have been the thing since. And if I can’t think of a clean smelling name then it’s a clue I don’t understand what’s required. Var now looks like an extension of that, and the arguments against rather weak or very specific.

If you’re on VS, you can find out its type by hovering your mouse over it. Only when viewing the code on Github would you need to figure out the type. But then again, most reviewers only stare at the code on Github.

Thank you. Yes, using pattern matching to declare a variable with the empty property pattern is an effective way to combine the Is Not Null check with a variable definition that can then be used inside of the if-statement.
Pattern matching is an area that has been receiving many enhancements in the C# language over the last few versions and each of the various patterns can be combined to produce very complicated checks (including for null). You can see more of them here: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/functional/pattern-matching.

if(Foo() is {} foo){
// do something with “foo” here
}

Indeed you are correct. What surprises me the most is that it’s gone this long without being noticed (or at least mentioned). I’ll take care of that, thanks!

1 is not a prime number

Thanks for your response Bryan! What you say does have merit and it’s great to consider all the options. With agile, however, there are no absolutes. While spike points may not be within the “spirit” of agile, it can be helpful to some teams. Thanks for reading!

The intent is to be judicious in the use of Spikes which can only be achieved if they receive zero story points. A Sprint full of Spikes would not create anything that is potentially shippable or of business value. Most of the time you do not need a Spike, simply build something and incrementally adjust it based on what you learn. This is the intent of refactoring. If you are unclear about the purpose of Spikes return back to where it was created and defined: http://wiki.c2.com/?SpikeSolution

Hi Akhila, I’ll double check with the latest version of Selenium and update the repo (and respond here) if I can get it to work again. Check back in a few days, please!

Hi, this is not working for me.. Not able to connect to the edge browser

Hi Mike, thank you for considering my request.. I will check this and revert you