2021-03-10

Code Author

Throughout the years I have worked on many software projects. In most of them, the code header included the authorʼs name. At first, it seemed natural to have the authorʼs name. In time I realized having a code author in the header is irrelevant, discouraging, and often negative. That realization changed how I think about authorship in teams. Practically speaking, […]

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2017-05-05

Refactoring Untested Code

Refactoring is in general restructuring the code without changing its behavior. By behavior, I mean what the outside world can observe, inputs and outputs, data persisted, messages sent, and visible side effects. If those remain the same, users and upstream systems will not notice the difference, even if the internals look completely different. The key point here is the behavior […]

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