In defence of pedantic tools
We aim to please the customer at short notice and always overestimate our capacity to comprehend a system as it gets more complex. That’s a recipe for technical debt. Read more
Posts about Clean Code
Mocks or the real thing? Tips for better unit testing
This is not a tutorial about how to exploit the advanced features in modern mocking frameworks. Rather, it’s a warning that these features work around design decisions that were wrong to begin with. Read more
Using Exceptions to Write Robust Software for Stable Production
01/20/16
A study shows that the cause for almost all critical faults is bad error handling. I can back this up with... Read more
Writing Better Tests With JUnit
01/05/16
TLDR; Writing readable tests is at least as important as writing readable production code. But the standard JUnit tooling won’t... Read more
A Cultural Divide – Why The Hell Are We So Stubborn?
08/05/14
“The only thing that is constant is change.” – Heraclitus Bonfire of the Vanities Over the last few months, there... Read more
Why agile development needs automatic tests
07/17/14
Test the basics There are multiple reasons for tests. Two major reasons are: To prove that a change of the... Read more
Reflections on Curly Braces – Apple’s SSL Bug and What We Should Learn From It
02/27/14
Everyone’s shaking their heads First of all, I assume that by now, everyone who has ever read a single tweet... Read more
ATDD and Thucydides – part 1 of 2
In a world where test driven development is becoming more important every day, one of the biggest challenges for technical... Read more
Pros and Cons of the LCOM4 metric in Sonar
03/28/12
In our projects, we use sonar to detect quality flaws in our sources as early as possible. An important metric... Read more