A couple days ago Olaf Lewitz compared the work of a real Architect (the guy responsible for actual buildings) with the work of an so called Architect in a software development project. He concludes with this role description, as sketchy as it is, fits even less into my view of software development than I had [...]
I just came a cross 5 Reasons Why You Should Stop Estimating User Stories by Michael Dubakov. While I consider it an important practice to challenge everything I think this time the challenge is pretty weak and falls apart as soon as you start to analyse it. So lets do just that: You don’t waste [...]
One important feature of any test framework is setting up a test fixture and tearing it down afterwards. In JUnit 3 for you did that by overriding the methods setup() and teardown() of the class TestCase, which every test needed to extend. JUnit 4 was a little more flexible. The name of the methods was [...]
