Testing is a hard problem because there is no way to guarantee that a certain product or piece of code is 100% bug free. Many organizations have testing or “quality assurance” departments who are responsible for doing the majority of product testing before software goes to the customer. Even with a dedicated testing department, developers [...]
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I had a Mathematics teacher in High School who used to get very excited over factoring problems where you could simplify expressions by canceling out terms. He used to say it was just like “taking out the garbage”. Taking out the garbage was not usually a fun task but it is surprisingly satisfying to get [...]
I read a great article today on the future of software development. It gives a great summary of what is wrong with the waterfall method of development and how agile methodologies try solve this problem. The problem was that the Waterfall Model was arrogant. The arrogance came from the fact that we believed that we [...]
