How to Pay Programmers Less

To create software, you need programmers. Unfortunately. They are expensive, lazy, and almost impossible to control. The software they create…

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Java Annotations Are a Big Mistake

Annotations were introduced in Java 5, and we all got excited. Such a great instrument to make code shorter! No…

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Are You Still Debugging?

Debugging is “a process of running a program/method interactively, breaking execution flow after each statement and showing…” In a nutshell,…

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Throwing an Exception Without Proper Context Is a Bad Habit

I keep repeating the same mistake again and again. So it’s time to stop and make a rule to prevent…

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Vertical and Horizontal Decorating

A decorator pattern is one of the best ways to add features to an object without changing its interface. I…

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Fools Don’t Write Unit Tests

“We don’t have time to write unit tests” or “We don’t have the budget for unit testing” are complaints I…

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Need Robust Software? Make It Fragile

In any software project, the goal is to create something stable. We don’t want it to break in front of…

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When Do You Stop Testing?

There is a software to be tested. There is a team of testers. There is some money in the budget.…

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Wikipedia’s Definition of a Software Bug Is Wrong

Here is what Wikipedia says at the time of this writing: A software bug is an error, flaw, failure, or…

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