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Refactoring: The one technique that can save your project

Jun 6, 202110 min read 546 views

You enter a restaurant, order the food, the minutes pass, and when you are about to leave for the long wait, the waiter arrives with your food, but it's cold or isn't what you asked for 🤦‍♀️ What happened? The restaurant wasn't full, the attention w...

Refactoring: The one technique that can save your project

Test doubles: dummy, mocks, stubs, fake objects, spies. All the gang in one place

Apr 29, 202110 min read 201 views

Have you heard about stunts doubles in action films? You know? Those people whose job is to receive punches, kicks, and pretty much any type of damage to sell an action scene convincingly, without exposing the actors and actresses to any danger. In m...

Test doubles: dummy, mocks, stubs, fake objects, spies. All the gang in one place

What every developer should know to start writing tests

Apr 16, 202116 min read 918 views

We test things daily, from "how hot or cold the water is before entering the shower" to "taste and qualify a new meal before buying it again." Sometimes we don't test things directly, but we adjust our behavior based on others' feedback, like reading...

What every developer should know to start writing tests

Comments are useful. You just need to learn when to use them

Mar 22, 20217 min read 981 views

Perhaps you may have heard some of the following statements: "Code needs to be self-explanatory" "Comments are useless" "Don't write comments in your code" "Comments are a code-smell" "Comments are an anti-pattern" The thing is that writing commen...

Comments are useful. You just need to learn when to use them

How we change our client’s thought that we were a slow team

Oct 15, 202013 min read 114 views

One day, at the end of the sprint, my manager calls me. Very polite tells me that our client is upset and worried because he doubts we could deliver the product on time to the release date. We were hours before the end of the sprint, and I was busy t...

How we change our client’s thought that we were a slow team