As developers, we love to hate on QAs. I’m just kidding, of course. I love my QA. I love that they find bugs in my team’s code. It’s my favourite part of the agile waterfall development that we have. But, in all seriousness, let’s talk about a QA’s (Quality Assurance) role in your development team. […]
Over my many years as a developer, I have noticed a pattern. This pattern is to do with unit tests. Especially those who write unit tests. What I’ve noticed is that a lot of developers don’t treat their unit tests like they treat their (production) code. That is, they under-engineer unit tests and end up […]
One of the most common principles of development that I hear is DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself. Why is this principle so important and how do people break it? I mean, it should be common sense, right? Don’t repeat code. Don’t copy paste. I will repeat that last sentence. Don’t copy paste. If you have to […]
Depend on abstractions, not on concretions. Robert C. Martin Welcome back to the series on SOLID. By now, I’ll assume you’ve read my earlier post on the Interface Segregation Principle. In this post, we’ll be investigating the Dependency Inversion Principle which is not to be confused with Dependency Injection. Dependency Injection is only a form of […]
