Understand Design Patterns
Doing emergent design is an advanced practice that requires knowledge of a great many skills. One key skill that all professional software developers should acquire as they journey towards mastery is a deep understanding of design patterns, both in concept and in terms of the 23 design patterns called out by the Gang of Four …
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Read MoreUnderstand Object-Oriented Design
The first “barrier to entry” for doing emergent design, an advanced developer practice for incrementally building software, is to understand object-oriented design and development. In theory, the object-oriented model should be easy to understand but I don’t often see it well-understood in industry. I’ve reviewed millions of lines of code from companies across a range …
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Read MoreWhy Practice Eight: Implement the Design Last
By now you’ve probably figured out that I am a weirdo and that I like doing things differently than other people. In fact, I am an advocate of doing things backward. But I’m not being random here. As it turns out, the way most people build software includes some of the worst inefficiencies that I …
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Read MoreUse Accurate Examples
I discussed many benefits of using test-first development over these last eight blog posts. I find many benefits to doing test-first development but one stands out to me to be the biggest benefit and that is that the tests that I write concretize abstract requirements. This makes requirements understandable because they are real and tangible …
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