Insight of the Week

If we write tests in a way nobody is able to understand them, then we end up with tests not worth writing. Because an automated test that takes me more time to understand than it would take me to just check the same thing manually, does not provide any value. […]

Insight of the Week #17 – Useful Tests

12 Oct, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Software Design / TDD by letsdeveloper

Whenever I hear somebody say: I’ll quickly finish this and then I write some tests for it, my head explodes. Why do we do this? If you know, please tell me! ► All My Insights Share this:

Insight of the Week #16 – Y U No Test?!?

12 Oct, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Software Craftsmanship / Testing / Unit Testing by letsdeveloper

Whatever you do, it’s important to keep the context in mind. There’s millions of techniques and methods you might apply to your task at hand, but your context determines whether this is feasible or not. ► All My Insights Share this:

Insight of the Week #15 – Behold the Context

16 Sep, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop by letsdeveloper

Overhead is annoying. Period. It’s ok to have it once, maybe even twice or thrice. But no more. Overhead keeps me from being motivated to do things I like to do. That’s why I try to get rid of it wherever I can. Like in this episode. ► All My […]

Insight of the Week #14 – Overhead

7 Sep, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged GTD / Hands On by letsdeveloper

It is natural for humans to estimate. We do it all the time, reflexively. And this is good, because it keeps our minds from overloading. However, we have to take care to re-evaluate our estimations for them not to become prejudices. ► All My Insights Share this:

Insight of the Week #13 – Estimates and Prejudices

24 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Effective Programming / Estimates / NoEstimates by letsdeveloper

With code it is like with emails. It is impolite to just send a braindump to somebody, expecting her to figure the essence of it. The same way it’s impolite to check in ugly code, expecting the next person (possibly oneself) to figure out what it does the next time. […]

Insight of the Week #12 – Refactoring is Politeness

24 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Communication / GTD / Refactoring / Software Craftsmanship by letsdeveloper

When developing with frameworks, we usually have an integration problem, because the assumptions underlying our unit tests may or may not match the actual behaviour of the framework. Today I discuss a strategy to get out of this mess without duplicating tests or throwing away TDD. ► All My Insights […]

Insight of the Week #11 – Testing in Frameworks

12 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Effective Programming / Integration Testing / Software Craftsmanship / Testing / Tricks / Unit Testing by letsdeveloper

Successful work requires fast feedback. Independent of what you’re doing, you want to know as fast as possible how you’re holding up. Everything else is based on this feedback, so you better get it! ► All My Insights Share this:

Insight of the Week #10 – Fast Feedback

12 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Effective Programming / Feedback / Project Management / Research / Software Craftsmanship by letsdeveloper

Choosing the right architecture is difficult. I think that choosing the right one for your future system is even impossible. Whatever fits now may not fit tomorrow. But that means you should change it then. Not now! ► All My Insights Share this:

Insight of the Week #09 – The Right Architecture

12 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Refactoring / Software Craftsmanship by letsdeveloper