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Acceptance Tests: The Best Medium of Communication Between Stakeholders (if done right)
It’s a nice pleasant morning, and you have just entered the office. You greet your friends and grab a cup of coffee. You check your email and there is a new story assigned to you. “As a customer, I get my usage logs backed up” This is where is fun begins. Communicating Requirements A…
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Estimation Peril: How To Estimate Software Projects Effectively(or How Not To Lie)
Consider, you are a rockstar engineer and you are given a task by your favorite person, your project manager, to show some new fields in the dashboard. As usual, you are asked to estimate it as soon as possible. You think that well, seems like a quickie and you are tempted to estimate it a…
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Clean Code Chapter 1&2: Clean Code & Meaningful names
I have started reading the book Clean Code by Robert C. Martin, which is considered to be a industry standard for writing maintainable and elegant code. Because this book is such a heavy read, and each chapter is full of content and a knowledge bank in itself, for personal reference I’ve decided to summarise each chapter in…