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Act Like a Senior Developer – About Clean Code

Isa Goksu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:59:51 +0000

Today it was a hard day for me. As usual, I was looking at a mess around our code base. And the worst thing was that the code that I saw today was not a legacy code :S It has enough test coverage and moreover the system was working well. The problem was the conditional logics used all over the place. It is almost impossible to follow what’s happening and where :S Me and my colleague spent 2 whole days trying to understand what the heck was going on. Finally we figured it out and did what we wanted to do initially.

Making Code More Testable – Breaking Static Dependencies

Isa Goksu — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:07:31 +0000

Hi guys, it’s been a while that I haven’t posted anything. I was thinking writing all those technical things sometimes is not enough for the reader to visualize the concept. So I came up with a screencast this time. I’ll try to create these screencasts once a week and will cover different topics. This series will contain Making Code More Testable talks only. For other topics, I’ll create different series. Anyways, let’s get back to the overview :)

Using JUnit DataPoints and Theories

Isa Goksu — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:58:38 +0000

Today I was digging something for one of my custom projects in JUnit’s package and I came across with very nice feature. I think it’s going to make much more sense after my first article about JUnit’s @Parameterized annotation.

Using JUnit Parameterized Annotation

Isa Goksu — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:27:10 +0000

} @Parameterized.Parameters public static Collection primeNumbers() { return Arrays.asList(new Object { { 2, true }, { 6, false }, { 19, true }, { 22, false } });

Tips For Better Tests – Part 2

Isa Goksu — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:34:49 +0000

In the last post, I tried to roughly touch Unit Tests and what/how many and when to test our Units. For more information about that topic, please go back to first article.

Software Estimation

Isa Goksu — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:01:52 +0000

In a practical software world, when you’re working on a big project; one of the hardest thing is Software Estimation. Team members generally can’t predict what to estimate from stories. And also PMs (Project Manager) or SMs (Scrum Master) often get confused about estimating and committing. Anyway, since I couldn’t find direct information about this topic, I wanted to share my thoughts about Software Estimation.

Agile Processes, Flaccid SCRUM and Debt Metaphor

Isa Goksu — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:03:11 +0000

Today I was reading an article that Martin Fowler has recently added to his blog like couple months back. The article was about Lean (Scrum) process and its poor applications by missing the point.

What is This Code Coverage Thing?

Isa Goksu — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:41:55 +0000

Good question if you really don’t know what it means :) I’ve more than 7 years of software development experience and to be honest, I’ve never seen a company who uses code coverage as a metric unfortunately. We’re developing a lot of beautiful software and in most cases we’re ending up with lots of code messes :( You can argue on why it happens like this, but I’m not gonna go into that today. Let’s get back to the main topic:

Tips For Better Tests – Part 1

Isa Goksu — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:41:20 +0000

I remember my generation and how we were having trouble with understanding Test Driven Development (Design). First it came like TFD (Test First Development) which you were writing your tests before going into any code. But then this doesn’t fit into practical world. And TDD came into our world. Right now in turns into TED (Test Enhanced Design). Hehe.. Anyway, I just want to share my experience with all these. If you’re just starting this technique, you might find it a little bit hard to identify what/how many and when you should use this technique. And maybe more interesting, what is all about? what is unit test, what is integration test, what is functional test, what is acceptance test, etc.

Domain Driven Design

Isa Goksu — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:50:36 +0000

Yes, this is the new concept for designing. I’m still not sure that if we’re really on this phase for designing better products. We’ll see it soon anyway :) For those who is interesting with Domain Driven Design, InfoQ has recently released a booklet about DDD. You can download Domain Driven Design Quickly book, but you need to register first!