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When I speak of unit tests, sometimes there is a slight communication breakdown. Just becuase a developer wrote a test in the unit test harness does not a unit test make. This post does a good job of drawing a line in the sand.

Please stop re-inventing the wheel. There are a lot of software wheels that get re-invented all the time. Re-inventing is a time consuming waste that many projects can cut. In almost all cases it’s much better to do some due diligence and use an off...

Writing code for today and tomorrow Any developer working at a pace that will allow them to stay employed creates bugs. Testers get excited about a lot of different bugs. Testers should be lobbying for fixes that will have the biggest impact on the...

Planning Software projects Part 1 Good planning is critical to delivering software. Anyone who has shipped a product knows that the plans we start with rarely survive the entire release process intact. Too many of the plans we start with are useless...

Planning software projects Part 2 Plan how you will work Plan your infrastructure first In order for your team to be successful you will need to have some processes running smoothly. Builds, setup, automated testing, bug reporting and status...