Using Exceptions to Write Robust Software for Stable Production
20/01/16
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
05/01/16
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?
05/08/14
“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
17/07/14
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
27/02/14
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
28/03/12
In our projects, we use sonar to detect quality flaws in our sources as early as possible. An important metric... Read more
Why good metrics values do not equal good quality
Quite regularly, codecentric’s experts perform reviews and quality evaluations of software products. For example, clients may want to get an... Read more
We need more inline comments!
24/09/10
Inline comments within code are “evil” and everybody who still uses inline comments today is a really, really bad developer... Read more