Quick! What does the following method do when thing.method_that_might_raise! raises SomeAppException? And why is this a code smell?
1 def some_method 2 thing.method_that_might_raise! 3 ensure 4 return thing 5 end
Before giving the answers to these two questions,...
Pair programming does present some unique problems, one that we encountered at Hashrocket was commit attribution: a commit message would be identified with one member of the pair only. This is not exactly tragic, but from the perspective of a passioniate developer, having commit credit (and accountability) is a critical and visible part...
While recently discussing if a power law applies to bugs at the ongoing seminar I sentimentally call work, I noted a corollary to Linus’s Law.
Linus’s Law states:
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
The corollary is:
Most bugs fall to the second pair of eyes
That is, just having one other developer look at a bug will...
One of the most persistent and pernicious stumbling blocks I see when a team is starting out with Agile1 is equating story points and velocity directly with hours.
Often this stumbling block is not apparent immediately; it often crops up after a few iterations have passed. As an example, a stakeholder who was...
