That thing called testing

There is always a lot of discussions about testing in general, what to test (class, method, behavior, use case , feature, UI) ? when to test (after, before, during) ? how to do it ? like this...

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Use technologies as tools, don’t let them drive your design

Many problems on software development are due to which I call technology driven design obsession. Don’t let technologies and stacks dictate your design, keep it as simple as possible. Many developers try to use new technologies on their projects (because they are cool :P or have cool names...

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Open / Close principle and Design Patterns

The open/ closed principle represents the second principle of SOLID design, in this post I will give an overview of this principle and how to achieve it using different design patterns (including...

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D.R.Y principle and the Broken clock

This will be a short post, it is more like taking note of a thought that crossed my mind.          VS   Dry: Don't repeat yourself principle,...

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General thoughts about TDD, BDD, SOLID and Agile

TDD I still remember first time i heard about TDD, i was curious and a little suspicious; my first thought was how spending time and money  writing more code that doesn’t add functionality to...

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What is a good software ???

By googling this question probably you will get this answer : it must be maintainable, flexible, extensible, scalable, testable, modular, reusable, loosely coupled,… Personally i define a good software as a software that can be adapted to a change easily. The change could be of any...

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How to face the huge amount of changes in IT world (from a software developer perspective)

IT professionals, specially developers how are we supposed to deal with this huge amount of changes, new concepts, APIs, technologies… ??? 1-Open mind:       The IT world is moving fast we should be open minded to accept changes. For example the old debate around ASP webforms...

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