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Test more preach less

August 20th, 2009
Posted in Software Testing

For the past three years I’ve been trying to emphasize and build unit tests at Mint.com. I’ve tried TDD and some other approaches but nothing has kept up pace with an agile-like speed of development. The article Is Unit Testing Doomed? talks about the issues that developers have today with all the different philosophies of [ READ MORE ]

Positional Dependency causes Bugs for Newbies

August 19th, 2009
Posted in Software Development

Fixing bugs is a good way to learn a new code base. You often go through the procedure of understanding the high level software architecture, and are then given what appear to be fairly straightforward bugs, however, if the nuances of a system are not understood you will end up introducing more bugs than you [ READ MORE ]

Book Review: Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers

August 2nd, 2009
Posted in Book Review . Software Principles & Practice

For my summer software reading I choose Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers by Ed Burns (yes I know the title is a bit cheesy…). The book contains interviews with several male programmers, who have been in industry for at least 10 years, and have made significant contributions to in pure software such as creating a [ READ MORE ]

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