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title: "Most informative property description award goes to.."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/5/28/most-informative-property-description-award-goes-to.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/5/28/most-informative-property-description-award-goes-to.html"
published: "2008-05-28T06:45:54"
updated: "2008-05-28T06:45:54"
tags: ["General Software Devel..."]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "You can tell someone really tried to do the right thing, only to fail by the best intentions: this is from WixEdit ."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Most informative property description award goes to..

By Roy Osherove May 28, 2008 In [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 28, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

You can tell someone really tried to do the right thing, only to fail by the best intentions:

![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/p.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_Mostinformativepropertydescriptionaward_EB68_image_thumb.png)

this is from [WixEdit](http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/).

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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