Archive for April, 2008

Book Review: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers

In the foreword Robert Martin tells us that other patterns exist for preventing bad code, and this this book helps us reverse the rot, to “…turn systems that gradually degrade into systems that gradually improve.”
Since the provided definition of “Legacy code” describes “code without tests”, you can apply the approaches presented at any point in […]

Competition Time - Ends 30 April 2008 - Win Manning E-books

Manning Publications have a competition to win some free e-books.
Manning say they will give away 2 free e-books every day until 30th April.
Do you feel lucky?

Book Review: JUnit Recipes by J. B. Rainsberger, Scott Stirling

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‘ “Stop Debugging. Write a test instead” and here’s how’. That seems to sum up the book. Wether you use TDD or not, JUnit Recipes helps you get more out of JUnit - perhaps it will help you stave off a move to TestNG?
Contents include 130+ ’solutions’ for common tasks. If you check out […]