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We all know the value of testing, and especially the importance of unit testing. However, it is sometimes quite a challenge to properly test...

We are conducing an interesting exploration project these days. The product I am working on uses UML models as a primary input. Those models...

We had this wonderful session last week about "writing on the walls". This tutorial was held by Laurent Bossavit (read here for ...

What makes interesting software? What makes hard software? What makes fun software? Customer affinity It all started with Martin Fowler post...

After 3 weeks of vacations (a wonderful place in Greece), I felt I needed some kind of warm-up,... So I undertook the idea to answer the we...

Let's say you have some bad legacy code (I have yet to see a codebase without any,...). When, how should you refactor/reengineer it? In ...

Writing unit tests looks like an art sometimes. You want to: test your class functionalities test it properly in isolation convey the specif...

Today's Dojo was interesting, at least interesting enough to keep a trace of it. The subject I wrote a small Dojo subject a week ago tha...

When can you say "too much is too much"? Let's say you have an object: Customer. Wow, how original! Anyway, please bear with m...

Sometimes, learning new things is scary. You've just learned something you find very important, acquired a new skill and you ask yoursel...

The opening keynote of ICSTest Düsseldorf 06 was: "Tools: what we really need and how to get it?". Mechanical tools The speaker ma...

I have been musing a lot with computer languages recently. Parsing Ruby code First of all, I needed to be able to analyze some Ruby classes ...

We were writing a recruitement ad yesterday and were thinking about the kind of skills and experience we wanted for 2 senior developers. My ...

I have noticed a post on the Ruby on Rail mailing list that catched my attention today: > I somewhat agree with you, but I recently > ...

I have been so far quite enthusiastic with 2 frameworks: Fitnesse and Rails. Fitnesse: executable specifications for the developers Fitness...

Here is a link to a research project for having relationships as first-class citizens in Java: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Eaw345/talks/ecoop...

The oath is broken. I wanted to add a new entry in this blog at least every 15 days, and failed miserably for one month. Let's compensat...

What can I do as a kata tonight? Oh yes, the unsolved problem from this week's Dojo, of course! Well, it was not unsolvable at all, you ...

Gureto!! (Great in japanese) The Dojo we had last evening was very instructive The place We were 11 people from various background sit aroun...

I want to share a small code kata I did tonight. The kata Transform a roman number "MCMLXXIV" into a decimal number: 1974. This ka...