Unit testing is incredibly important. I learned that early in my career. And here is my story. *dramatic music* When I studied Computer Science at Northeastern a million years ago, I was never taught to write tests for my code. So, when I got my first real job, the idea…
Defensive Code is an overloaded term. Many articles revolve around topics like the fail fast principle where you verify the bounds of a function before proceeding. There are opinions about the effectiveness and maintainability of a code base with redundant checks. Still, the principle behind defensive code is that Murphy’s…
Bear with me while I dabble in religion for a second… When God created everything, God saw what God had made and said it was very good. When a developer looks at a few lines of code they think, “This could be done better!” The developer then jumps down the…
