What is software quality? Is it measurable? What should we focus on when we want to improve quality? It is still believed that quality in software is about automated functional tests. A manager worried about quality tends to contract external companies to automate functional tests....
Analogies play an important role in our lives. They help us understand concepts and situations by mapping what we are already familiar with to the objects we want to be familiarised. We construct analogies all the time, often not even noticing their presence, as if...
How can I convince my team to adopt TDD? How do I convince my manager that we should do pair programming? How do I convince the business that we should invest in Continuous Integration? Those are questions we normally get everywhere we go to talk...
NCrafts 2017 is a two days conference in Paris. I had the chance to also attend an event storming workshop run by Alberto Brandolini a day before the conference. It was full of fun, socialising and learning. Here are some of my takeways of those...
Toward Continuous Integration Testing features in iOS is not simple. Not to say that other platforms are, just that App Store constrains everything because any process you want to implement needs to take in consideration the provisioning profiles, devices, etc … Of course the alternative...
I have always been able to deliver what was asked and I was able to understand and pick up new project quickly, but the code base I would work on would always grow into something people would fear to touch, working with it would become...
Four simple steps to reduce your Webpack bundle size ... A team from Codurance (including myself) are currently helping out a client on a Javascript brownfield) project. It’s a news application with a worldwide customer base and has a stack that includes ReactJS, Express, Webpack...
A Personal Experience Last weekend was a hectic one. I had many things planned for both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday, everything went according to plan. Sunday not so much. After arriving, on time, for my hair appointment, I was sat down (with my glass of...
I recently had the pleasure to attend Gojko Adzic’s “Specification by Example: From User Stories to Acceptance Test" training course … taught by Gojko himself! Having read his brilliant books: “Bridging the Communication Gap” and “Specification by Example. How successful teams deliver the right Software”,...
Respect Every morning, Sandro shakes hands with everyone when he arrives at the office. Everyday, everyone. I haven’t seen something similar in any company I’ve worked in and it’s an incredible example of respect and consideration. Transparency Everyone knows all about the economic situation of...
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