Yes, why do ‘you’ brush your teeth?Is it guaranteed that if we brush our teeth twice a day, floss once a day, gargle with an antiseptic, we will never have toothache or bad breath? And if we did not brush teeth say, for a week, would we be guaranteed to have toothache? For a few months, may be yes, we might, might just have to get some treatment done for a few teeth. So the question, why do we brush…
Like many codebases out there, our codebase at work had a backlog on unit & integration tests and it was high time we covered it up. So one fine day, it was decided that we shall no longer accept code without tests. Then the question of ‘how do we write tests’ came up. As one of the architects on the team I introduced the methodology of unit/integration testing and a mocking library (JMockit) to aid in cases where testing could…
A regular stressful day in the life of a software developer. I was communicating a module we needed to quickly put together. The team was not exactly new. We had a backend guy, and a front-end guy. Interface was designed and agreed upon, we needed to make it quick, we just defined the resources and said that we need the ‘standard CRUD operations done via REST’ on them. And we got down to work. When everyone reverted that they were…