Month: June 2017
What is Static Analysis? An Explanation for Everyone
June 29, 2017 2 minutes read Static analysis, as a concept, seems to earn itself a certain reputation. The general population may regard programming as a technocratic, geeky pursuit. But...
Should You Aim for 100 Percent Test Coverage?
June 22, 2017 2 minutes read Test coverage serves as one of the great lightning rods in the world of software development. First, people ask whether it makes for a...
In Defense of Using Your Users as Software Testers
June 15, 2017 3 minutes read In most shops of any size, you’ll find a person that’s just a little too cynical. I’m a little cynical myself, and we programmers tend...
How to Use NDepend’s Trend Charts
June 8, 2017 1 minutes read Imagine a scene for a moment. A year earlier, a corporate VP spun up a major software project for his organization. He brought a slew...
Fixing Your Tangled Dependency Graph
June 1, 2017 1 minutes read I’ve written before about making use of NDepend’s dependency graph. Well, indirectly, anyway. In that post, I talked about the phenomenon of actual software architecture...