A few weeks ago, we (myself & my two friends - Tomek & Wojtek, as a part of a community called CTO Morning Coffee) hosted an online X Spaces session on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). To be clear, this wasn't supposed to be an intro session; quite the contrary....
Many people who've never seen high-performing teams in action (I mean genuinely high-performing, not just the ones who self-claim they are ...), assume that all that you need to form such a team is: * assign them a mission (they could identify with) * grant them a sufficient level of autonomy...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
Tonight I’m going to write a bit more personal stuff - don’t say you haven’t been warned :) I’m quite impatient usually and it gets me really anxious when I see someone making an obvious (at least to me) mistake without realizing that. In some cases I...
Recently I had a pleasure^M^M^M^M^M…, let’s say “an opportunity” to go through few functional specification documents prepared by various people (some of them by our staff and some by random client personnel). Honestly, it was truly a painful experience. I don’t intend to...
And how does it work in practice? Installation was smooth and it didn’t require much configuration. If you want to debug mocked code, you need to link Typemock Isolator with profiler / code coverage tool : the default one is Visual Studio profiler, but more options are supported. Unfortunately my version...
What should we do to start mocking? In the most simple case, we extract the interface from the functionality we want to mock and prepare another implementation that returns mock results. Unfortunately, there are few problems: first, this code may be the legacy one (so there’s no chance for...
Idea of automated unit testing is not new. There are several unit test frameworks on pretty much all programming platforms and you can find multiple publications regarding unit testing in every tech bookstore, so you can get familiar with the idea easily. Community is in line - unit testing is...
During my professional career, I’ve seen many technical solutions. They fall into few categories: 1. "Stone bricks" - they do what they have to in a crude and the simplest possible way, they are not re-usable in any case and no-one bothers a lot about their maintainability....
