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10 more things professional software developers do
Since my last post about 12 things I believe professional software developers should do, in August, I started to take note of other behavior, skills, and characteristics I like or miss in the people I run into while working on complex software projects. Next to that, I received quite a few sugges...
Why I am abandoning GitFlow
Now that the number of downloads of Fluent Assertions is about to cross the magic number of 1 million downloads, and the library is quite feature complete, it is time to rethink the release strategy. Since its inception we’ve always used a separate branch for working on future features and improv...
An opinionated definition of a unit test
During the same C# code reviews that triggered last week’s blog post about writing great unit tests, another discussion tends to pop-up, in particularly with new joiners (both experienced and junior):
12 tips to write unit tests that don’t cripple your codebase
Over the last months, I’ve been involved in more and more code reviews, mostly because we’ve increased the level of quality required for code changes to our code base. While doing that, I started to track my most frequently used review comments intended to improve.
9 simple practices for writing better object-oriented code
Consider a fantasy game that must track a collection of items, each having a certain amount of quality (or value) that increases or decreases after time passes. This collection contains the following six items:
The real challenges of building the right thing right
Suppose you're in the following situation.You and your team are supposed to start working on some important architectural changes that were long due.Your team is then asked by your manager to help build an important feature that requires the unique skills of your team, and ...
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