Let's start with some bold statements: * Team that did shitty waterfall work will most likely do a shitty agile work too (you can freely substitute the word 'agile' with Lean Six Sigma, CMMI3+, XP or whatever) * Nice tools can make a noticeable impact (by improving morale,...
The prose of life Test automation ain't trivial & there are several reasons for that, including: * need for scalable structure (hierarchy, naming, etc.) * dealing with dependencies (coupling) * insufficient speed of execution affecting dev agility * shared resources impairing isolation * inertia of data (incl. configuration, parameterization, etc.) But there are...
Among all the interesting sessions at Lambda Days [http://www.lambdadays.org/] there was one titled "The Tools That Shape Us" by Andrea Magnorsky [https://twitter.com/silverSpoon]. I liked the topic & the way it was presented, but in this blog post I'm gonna focus...
Programmers throughout the world keep wondering why some companies are such great places to work & other ones are like local embassies of hell on earth. Obviously the answer isn't easy & trivialising it with unproven, populistic assumptions is just oversimplifying whole stuff. Let me deal with the...
"Organic" growth Codebases grow, they never shrink. New functionality chunks appear, old ones very rarely get decomissioned. More code means more complexity, more dependencies, more space for regression & even more troublesome testing - that's sad reality & you can fool yourself with dreaming about full...
The subject of 10x engineers [http://www.quora.com/10X-Engineers] & their existence is back. Again. It's just the nicknames that change: * rockstar programmers * cowboy programmers * 10x engineers Personally I thought that's not much to be said beyond what Scott Hanselman did here [http://www.hanselman....
