Name Change

I've written before about ArtOfTest's WebAii product. It's a fine product, and beta 2 was released today, with some nice improvements.

Except that it took me a half hour to update our tests to work with the new release, because some programmer thought that Find.AllByTag was a better method name than Find.GetAllElementsByTagName, and similarly for every method in the Find object.  I don't want to pick on WebAii, I like the product and I realize that it's beta, but I just don't see the compelling reason for the change, and wasted time is wasted time.

I suppose that if Visual Studio didn't have autocomplete, and I didn't rely so heavily on it, I might appreciate the shorter method names, but right now all I can think about is that I'm really glad Visual Studio has global search & replace.  If you publish an API, you really should have an excellent reason to change the names of methods in that API. 

— Gordon Weakliem at permanent link