Modern applications are interconnected, depending on public services from one or more external applications. At the same time, applications change often. Their public services are very likely to change also. When this happens, our application has to continue working correctly. How can we know it does? The answer is by having automated tests for all […]
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In about six weeks I’ll attend the second edition of I T.A.K.E. Unconference. “Preparing” for it, I decided to take a look at the videos for some of the talks that I missed last year. Today, I watched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Dealing with Smelly Code by Radu Marinescu. Watching it
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Last time we talked about the problems John faces when encountering code that doesn’t follow the Single Responsibility Principle. This time we’ll discuss about his colleague, Jane. Jane is another programmer from the team, specialized in accounting. She receives requests from the accounting department, such as: Until now, all our services had the VAT of 18%
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Let me tell you the story of a developer. His name is John and he’s working in a medium-size company, developing with 10 colleagues the internal tools for users from: accounting, customer relations, human resources, marketing, management reports and operations. Since John is mainly specialized in HR, he gets requests such as: We’re introducing our
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In the previous blog post, we discussed why design is needed. We saw that using abstractions (functions, classes, modules etc) is a way to allow the code to change safely. We briefly touched on the idea that introducing abstractions has a down side: it can create software that’s difficult to understand. Therefore, the challenge is to
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We invite you to the second edition of the exciting IT event for programmers, testers, technical leaders and managers I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2014. We created it to offer you the opportunity to meet software professionals from all over Europe. Our first confirmed keynote speaker is Michael Feathers, the author of ”Working Effectively with Legacy Code” (Prentice Hall, 2004) and a world renown consultant with over 15 years
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Romanians have a saying: “Skills are not learned, they are stolen”. We believe this is true about programming skills as well, so we strive to create opportunities for programmers to steal skills from one another. “Coding with a Stranger” is such an opportunity. A Personal Story I will make a confession: I’m an introvert programmer.
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Our trainer and coach, Adrian Bolboaca talks about pairing, more than pair programming. This event took place on the 21th of November 2013. Thank you Java User Group Bucharest for having us around. The Bucharest JUG organizer, Ioan Eugen Stan published the video of this talk on JUG video channel. Here is the talk: Do you want to learn more about
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Scrum doesn’t mandate technical practices explicitly. Neither does kanban. Agile is a set of principles and practices, and it’s often hard to choose which one are useful. There’s a reason to that. Scrum is not a process but a framework that you adapt to your context. Kanban is about introducing change, and it’s up to
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How do we specify requirements? Chatting is inherently imprecise. Email looses context. Even the ideal requirement document starts to decay once it is done. The most precise way we know to store knowledge is code. Could we use code to write specifications that are easy to understand by non-technical stakeholders and that check the behavior
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