Don’t Keep your Tests Green

Wait … wasn’t that ‘Keep your tests green’? Of course I agree, if 50% of your tests are red all the time you have a problem. BUT if 100% of the tests are green all the time, then how do you know they can actually detect the errors they are supposed to cover? Simple answer [...]

Posted in: Quality Management, Softwareentwicklung by Jens Schauder No Comments

Interfaces for Databases

I wrote before about the maturity (or lack thereof) of the art of software development in the database realm. So did others. One thing I noted is that there is no discussion on how to break down a database into modules or packages. So today instead of mainly complaining, I’going to make a proposal on [...]

Posted in: Agil, Datenbank, Softwareentwicklung by Jens Schauder No Comments

The Ribbon Sucks

If you are working with Office 2007 you know the Ribbon. If you don’t you are a lucky bastard. Although Office has many bugs and is a major case of feature bloat, but up to now I always stood up to defend it, because most of the stuff I use works ok, and that is [...]

Posted in: Design, Softwareentwicklung by Jens Schauder 55 Comments