You don’t need Testers – Or do you?

I talk to a lot of people in both big and small software development organizations about how they manage software…

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Can you get more out of Static Analysis?

When it comes to static analysis, Bill Pugh, software researcher and the father of Findbugs (the most popular static analysis…

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What Refactoring is, and what it isn’t

Sometimes a programmer will come to me and explain that they don’t like the design of something and that “we’re…

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Is Copy and Paste Programming really a problem?

Copy and Paste Programming – taking a copy of existing code in your project and repurposing it – violates coding…

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Defensive Programming: Being Just-Enough Paranoid

Hey, let’s be careful out there. Sergeant Esterhaus, daily briefing to the force of Hill Street Blues When developers run…

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Technical Debt – How much is it Really Costing you?

The idea behind the technical debt metaphor is that there is a cost to taking short cuts (intentional technical debt)…

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Agile’s Customer Problem

Agile methods like Scrum and XP both rely on a close and collaborative relationship and continual interaction with the customer…

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Essential Attack Surface Management

To attack your system, to steal something or do something else nasty, the bad guys need to find a way…

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Source Code is an Asset, Not a Liability

Some people have tried to argue that source code is a liability, not an asset. Apparently this “is now widely…

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