Apr 13 2010 Published by gojko at 6:56 am under articles I’m currently interviewing lots of teams that have implemented acceptance testing for my new book. A majority of those interviewed so far have at some point shot themselves in the foot with UI test automation. After speaking to several people…

I'm old enough to remember what IOC really means. And in my day* it didn't mean "knowing what constructors are for" or "avoiding the new keyword will magically make code easier to maintain as long as you never need to understand its dynamic dependencies". Inversion of Control means callback-driven…

Written on 23 Jul 2010 I’d been meaning to write this up for a while, and now Nat Pryce has written up the 140 character version. This is all Chris Matts‘ idea. He realised that the problem with the “Technical Debt” metaphor is that for managers debt can be a good thing. Executives can be required…

Take a look at this Java code: Does it make you cringe a little bit? If so, I’m guessing it’s because those fields aren’t wrapped in nice getters and setters. But why do that? What if we want them to be mutable and don’t have any validation or logic to perform when they change? Isn’t simpler better?…

Posted by Uncle Bob Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:26:15 GMT The problem of infinity plagued mathematicians for millennia. Consider Xeno’s paradox; the one with Achilles and the tortoise. While it was intuitively clear that Achilles would pass the Tortoise quickly, the algebra and logic of the day seemed…