Month: December 2017
Cargo Cult Programming Is the Art of Programming by Coincidence
December 28, 2017 2 minutes read I first learned about cargo cult programming a few years ago. I remember thinking back then, “What a strange name for a programming-related concept.”...
The Unit Test Effect Study, Refined
December 21, 2017 2 minutes read About a month ago, I wrote a post about how unit tests affect (and apparently don’t affect) codebases. That post turned out to be...
Lack of Cohesion of Methods: What Is This And Why Should You Care?
December 14, 2017 2 minutes read Lack of cohesion of methods (sometimes abbreviated LCOM) is one of those things that occurs fairly high up on the software hierarchy of needs. ...