7 reasons why learning refactoring techniques will improve your life as a software engineer
This post is a bold promise. Mastering incremental refactoring techniques makes our lives as software engineers more enjoyable.
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Last week, my colleague Ahmad Atwi and I went to the London SPA Conference to give our Remote eXtreme Practice talk.
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As long as you are writing your tests before your code and doing regular refactoring, you are doing TDD !
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As I said last week, I released the v0.1 of Philou’s Planning Poker, my latest side project. Although I have a day job, a wife, a family and a mortgage to pa...
Side Projects Matter
As a manager, you could benefit a lot from helping your developers with their side projects.
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There is a rather widespread TDD practice to have a single assertion per test. The goal is to have faster feedback loop while coding. When a test fails, it c...
20 Bad Excuses For Not Writing Unit Tests
I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don’t we? Stephen King
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I started to learn Test Driven Development a long time ago. Since then, even though I’m still not a master, it’s been my most useful programming skill, by fa...