Refactoring vs. Optimization
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Refactoring: The one technique that can save your project
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...
Jun 6, 202110 min read920
Test Double - dummy, mocks, stubs, fake objects, spies. All the gang in one place
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...
Apr 29, 202110 min read429
What every developer should know to start writing tests
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...
Apr 16, 202116 min read1.3K
Comments are useful. You just need to learn when to use them
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...
Mar 22, 20217 min read1.3K
How we change our client’s thought that we were a slow team
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...
Oct 15, 202013 min read181