Yes, good documentation also helps. This also reminded me of another tactic to use in conjunction with the others; you could use Coldspring to explicitly state the relationships between these CFCs so you don't get caught out so easily:
http://www.coldspringframework.org/ On 8/29/06, Neil Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > documentation. > > On 8/29/06, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You might need to look into unit testing, with something like CFUnit. > > > > On 8/29/06, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have quite a lot of CFCs now on some of my sites, since I'm using > > > OO techniques nearly exclusively nowdays. > > > > > > One of the problems I've discovered as I tinker around with methods is > > > that every once in a while I'll change a method, only to find there is > > > an unexpected consequence somewhere else, because the method I'm > > > tinkering with is used somewhere on the site I've overlooked. > > > > > > Obviously every time a method is changed in any way, all the parts of > > > the site that access that method need to be tested again, but making > > > sure they're all tested is proving more and more tricky as the sites > > > get bigger and more complex, or as time goes by and i forget how > > > everything was hooked together. > > > > > > The only way i have found to discover where a particular method is > > > used is to use a global text search over the site for the text > > > "methodname(" and hope that shows up all references to the method. > > > > > > Is this how the rest of you do this? or is there another way to do it? -- CFAJAX docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251349 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
