At this point, we are past the initial hype cycle of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Many of us have tried to figure out where AI tools fit in the development process. Initially there were hopes and fears that we could easily generate code from prompts and have AI tools perform unguided …
Drawing on the original Refactoring book that used Java as the programming language for examples, this new edition of Refactory Ruby explains how to apply refactoring techniques in a Ruby context, adding some refactoring that are specific to this language.
In this guided demo, we are going to look at 3 different software engineering techniques that are remarkably powerful in combination to cut through legacy code without having to go through the bother of reading or understanding it.
Doing refactoring seems to be an obvious programming practice. In many software development teams, this is not being done at all. “We have no time to do it!”. “We are not allowed”. “We don’t know where to start and how to do it pragmatically”. Many programmers are familiar with classic …
Taming complexity is a challenge of every large-scale software project. Traditional metrics and techniques are inadequate. That leaves us with intuition. And human intuition is unequaled when it comes to assessing the quality of a design. But intuition is prone to social and cognitive biases that are hard to avoid. …
We can do without architecture early on, but at some point a clearly communicated architecture offers big productivity benefits to developers who otherwise drown in the expanding implementation-level detail.
