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Agile
You don’t need Testers – Or do you?
I talk to a lot of people in both big and small software development organizations about how they manage software…
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Software Development
Can you get more out of Static Analysis?
When it comes to static analysis, Bill Pugh, software researcher and the father of Findbugs (the most popular static analysis…
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Software Development
What Refactoring is, and what it isn’t
Sometimes a programmer will come to me and explain that they don’t like the design of something and that “we’re…
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Software Development
Is Copy and Paste Programming really a problem?
Copy and Paste Programming – taking a copy of existing code in your project and repurposing it – violates coding…
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Software Development
Defensive Programming: Being Just-Enough Paranoid
Hey, let’s be careful out there. Sergeant Esterhaus, daily briefing to the force of Hill Street Blues When developers run…
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Software Development
Technical Debt – How much is it Really Costing you?
The idea behind the technical debt metaphor is that there is a cost to taking short cuts (intentional technical debt)…
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Agile
Agile’s Customer Problem
Agile methods like Scrum and XP both rely on a close and collaborative relationship and continual interaction with the customer…
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Software Development
Essential Attack Surface Management
To attack your system, to steal something or do something else nasty, the bad guys need to find a way…
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Software Development
Source Code is an Asset, Not a Liability
Some people have tried to argue that source code is a liability, not an asset. Apparently this “is now widely…
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