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- By Mashooq Badar
- Posted 18 Oct 2011
The legacy of misplaced Testing
Recently I've been exposed to a number of projects that have been going on for a few years. As you'd expect they are at a stage where the cost of change is phenomenal. The codebase is large, convoluted and very difficult to understand. However, there are a lot...
- By Mashooq Badar
- Posted 15 Oct 2011
Design aligned to the Problem Vs Design aligned to the Technology
Lets develop a web app from start: Well I know Java pretty well so it's going to be Java and then the de facto design is Spring + Hibernate with Spring MVC. I know I'll push the boat out get some AJAX in the mix....
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 10 Oct 2011
Mentorship in Software Craftsmanship - part 2
In part one I gave a bit of background history and also described the roles and responsibilities of mentors and mentees according to the Software Craftsmanship principles. In this second post I'll be convering a few other areas related to the relationship itself. Remember that the focus...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 04 Oct 2011
Mentorship in Software Craftsmanship
How's mentorship seen in Software Craftsmanship? First, a little bit of background and metaphor In the medieval times, apprentices would work in workshops an would be mentored by senior craftsmen (journeymen) or by the master craftsman himself. The apprentice had the responsibility to learn, observing the...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 20 Sep 2011
LSCC's First Code Retreat
On September 10th we had the London Software Craftsmanship Community's First Code Retreat. We had 22 passionate and talented developers working in Java, C#, Ruby, Python and JavaScript. Some of them travelled two hours, waking up as early as 5am, to come to the code...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 20 Aug 2011
One year of London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC)
Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. Anthony Burgess Happy Birthday, LSCC!!!! On 18th of August 2011, the London Software Craftsmanship Community completed one year. And what a great year we had! How did it all start? David Green and...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 26 Jul 2011
SRP: Simplicity and Complexity
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan Perlis The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) - one of the SOLID principles - is definitely one of my favourites principles in Object-Oriented Design. I find its simplicity and, at the same time, its complexity fascinating. I...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 18 Jul 2011
Testing legacy: Hard-wired dependencies (part 2)
In part one, I showed how to unit test a method that uses a Singleton and makes static calls. So now, let's have a look at common code problems we find in legacy code, using the same example: public class TripService { public List<Trip> getTripsByUser(User...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 16 Jul 2011
Testing legacy: Hard-wired dependencies (part 1)
When pairing with some developers, I've noticed that one of the reasons they are not unit testing existing code is because, quite often, they don't know how to overcome certain problems. The most common one is related to hard-wired dependencies - Singletons and static calls....
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 03 Jul 2011
Working with legacy code
Context Large organisations' systems may have from tens of thousands to a few million lines of code and a good part of those lines is legacy code. By legacy code I mean code without tests. Many of these systems started being written many years ago,...
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