by Ruben Hamers | Dec 8, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin The next big topic of this chapter is called It’s all writing. This section will dive into the many kinds of documentation we will have to write as pragmatic programmers. Andrew and David mention that we should treat english, or which ever language you or your...
by Ruben Hamers | Nov 13, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Ok; so next up is yet another section on testing. David and Andrew say that most developers hate testing. And I agree, as Uncle Bob would say, testing after the fact is really, really boring. You already know the code works because you just wrote it and tested...
by Ruben Hamers | Nov 2, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin The next section of the chapter is all about automation. Well, we talked about that before but let’s see what else Andrew and David have to say about it. They mention that automation is a way to ensure guaranteed repeatability. Well that sounds pretty...
by Ruben Hamers | Oct 24, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Andrew and David kick this chapter off with the idea of no broken windows. Do you remember what this was about? You don’t leave broken windows in a building because if there’s one broken window and nobody fixes it, people expect its fine and no one will...
by Ruben Hamers | Oct 11, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin The last section of the chapter is about circles and arrow, which effectively just means CASE tools, UML or diagramming. I think its funny since even though UML is a standard its still not widely used. I remember an interview with Simon Brown, the...
by Ruben Hamers | Sep 22, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Earlier we mentioned we would take another look at over analyzing the requirements. The following section of the chapter is all about the specification trap. But first, what exactly is a specification. Well, David and Andrew say that a specification is a...
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