Try It, You’ll Like It
When I was a kid growing up in the 1970s there was a television commercial for Alka-Seltzer where one guy is giving some other guy some scary-looking food and says, “Try it, you’ll like it.” That became the catchphrase for an entire generation and it meant not to pass judgment on something until you have …
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Read MoreWhy Practice Four: Collaborate
Practice four from my book, Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of your software, is Collaborate. You may wonder why a technical book on agile software development practices would include a practice called Collaborate but it turns out that even though we often don’t get formal training in school on …
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Read MoreFix Broken Builds Immediately
There are good crutches and bad crutches in life. Being addicted to using heroin is a bad crutch but being addicted to using a working build is a good, healthy crutch. This is the kind of crutch that I want to encourage. A healthy, well-maintained build is the heartbeat of a project. Removing friction from …
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Read MoreKeep Test Coverage Where it is Needed
I’m not a believer in having standards for test coverage. I know teams that require 60%, 70%, or 80% test coverage for their code. I don’t like having standards like this because different code has different requirements for testing. Straightforward code like getters and setters don’t really need to be tested. However, more complex code …
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