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Some people feel uneasy when they test-drive code, so they favor the traditional workflow where testing is an after-development activity. Other people, on the contrary, believe that adding automated tests after development is more challenging, so the...
Most of us are familiar with the problems exhibited by the systems that contain design smells (understanding the term “smell” as defined in Martin Fowler’s book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code). Some of these problems are: The sys...
Recently, I wrote a post about my talk at the 1st International Conference on Test-Driven Development (TDD). The post covers the part where I discuss about the notion of robust tests and how unit size impacts robustness. In that post, I leave one que...
Last July 10th, we could witness the first International Conference on Test-Driven Development (TDD). It was a historic event. The lineup included big names such as GeePaw Hill and one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto: James Greenin...
There seems to be no agreement in the software engineering community about how many parameters are too many for a function. This should come to no surprise. The ideal number of parameters for a function need not be the same as the ideal number of par...
Design patterns became popular during the 90s, when the “Gang of Four (GoF)” (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides) wrote the well-known book: "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" This book is one...
