A couple of weeks ago a coworker told me that they have a little utility in their projects in order to set private fields for tests. He kind of claimed they needed that since they are using Spring, which in production sets the dependency. I was a little confused. But after looking into it I [...]
I hope everybody among my readers is familiar with the concept of technical debt: If you do a quick hack to implement a feature it might be faster to implement in the short run, but you have to pay interest for the technical debt in the form of higher development and maintenance effort. If you [...]
A last week I was at the completely awesome SoCraTes conference. It was the first meeting of the German Software Craftsmanship Community. Some of the attendees argued that some day in the future there might be a way to measure the quality of software which in turn would help to argue with management about the [...]
