Hello (again) world! We’ve returned to blogging with a fun and thought provoking article by our Guest Blogger Dave Gosselin. Dave is a C++ Engineer and keeps his own blog: Software Engineer’s Field Guide to Bugs. In this piece, Dave has taken the time to ponder the definition of a scripting language. We hope you’ll enjoy[…]
Code rot. It sounds terrible, and let’s be honest, it is. It’s when your code’s quality and responsiveness deteriorates over time, which can lead to it becoming unstable and unusable. This spells big issues for your project, so you obviously want to prevent it. How do you go about doing so? Why is your code[…]
Testing is, without a doubt, one of the most important parts of the software development process. What happens though when your project is in full swing, and you realize that you don’t have the resources to support the testing? There are a couple of options. You can overwork your QA team or look for testing[…]
The cloud. It’s a term that evokes the imagery of soft, puffy shapes in the sky, but as you know, it’s also a term that’s drawing a lot of attention in the computer world; cloud computing is the technology which allows you to process and store data over the Internet instead of on a hard[…]
Today’s blog post is part of our guest blogger series, and is written by Eugene Lazutkin. Almost any Java programmer, who starts to study JS Grokking, its OOP facilities, and a dynamic nature of JS, thinks that they can be greatly improved and start their own OOP library/helpers. The majority of these libraries are left[…]
You can test software through both automated and manual testing, but which one you choose comes down to the associated costs and benefits of each on your particular project. Today we’ll walk you through the pros and cons of using both automated and manual testing methods so that you can determine which is best for[…]
Whenever you’re developing software, you need to test for defects. Manually testing these projects though is time consuming, and far from being fail-proof; bugs will often pop up later on sections you’ve already tested. So what’s a development team to do? It’s simple really. Beyond consistent testing, software development teams should bring automated testing tools[…]
You’ve just realized that your project is failing. That it isn’t going to be on time or within budget. That you’ve bitten off more than you can chew. There’s that sinking feeling, and then the panic sets in. But, before you start breathing into a brown paper bag, take a second. It might not be[…]
There’s a lot of debate about whether the use of story points or ideal days should prevail in Agile planning. While there are certainly benefits to both, they both also have their downsides. Read about story points and ideal days, as well as the advantages and disadvantages to each below, and let us know if[…]
There’s a saying that goes “there’s more than one way to skin a cat.” Fortunately for cats everywhere, we’re not going to skin one. We’re simply applying this logic to software development. There are several ways to develop software, two of the most prominent methods being waterfall and Agile. And as anytime there are two[…]