Question

I’m an intermediate C#/ASP.net coder working on a fun MVC project. I’d like to implement an experiment framework that will allow objects to “jiggle” functionality in order to find better ways of doing things. Where can I read more about best practices or tutorials on this kind of thing?

e.g

// A helper class that might return different flavors of "mean".
public class MeanHelper
{
  ...
  Mean(IEnumerable<double> input) { <shuffle between the 3 below.> }

  OrdinaryMean(IEnumerable<double> input) { ... }
  GeometricMean(IEnumerable<double> input) { ... }
  HarmonicMean(IEnumerable<double> input) { ... }
  ...
}

Thanks so much!

Answer 1

What you describe sounds like a strategy pattern; you could for instance have an interface IMean, with a method Calculate, and 3 implementations.