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Strategies for using a code metric evaluation tool
Should code quality metric evaluation tools like Sonar be integrated with IDE for running local analysis or should they be a part of the build process (like integrated with maven) for continuous ...
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How to deal with too much pragmatism in the project?
My team and I took over a medium sized codebase over a year ago when the previous tech lead left the company. Originating from the lack of man power I fear we favored pragmatic solutions over best ...
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Is code reviewing good practice?
When the company I work in hired new managers, they offered us to overview someone's code on every meeting. We have meetings every two weeks, so each time one of developers was to show his/her code on ...
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How to set up a one-man research in the difference between BDD and Waterfall?
Earlier, I asked a question about how to measure the quality of a project. The outcome of that question was that the quality of the project can be divided into two parts:
Internal quality (code ...
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What does a code review look like?
I'm writing a code review process document for our team; we've never had a formal process in place although we do do some code review.
I've found lots of articles talking about how important code ...
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How best to prevent having to revisit a change after check in
Normally what happens is that I work on something for a while and then when I am done I check it in(After the test/review process of course). Sometimes I have to go back and fix something that I got ...
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General checklist before releasing software
I'm currently building a tool that my company intends to sell. I'm the sole developer on the project and it is being developed outside our normal code base and to a certain extent outside our normal ...
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Ideas about how to prevent malicious code to go into production especially in case of SAAS environments
As nowadays SAAS is becoming popular way of developing and deploying the applications, and I have just started working at a company providing SaaS solution for payment authorization services.
Since ...
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Is code ownership a code smell?
This is something I've been thinking about ever since I read this answer in the controversial programming opinions thread. And it has been discussed a bit in other threads, such as this one, but I ...
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lightweight, sustainable processes for good code/design quality?
Ok, gang, next question: what do y'all think are the best processes
to improve the quality of the code the (corporate) team produces?
(The cult of quality question was good, but I'm looking for ...
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Does code generation increase the code quality?
Arguing for code generation, I am looking for some examples of ways in which it increases code quality. To clarify what I mean by code generation, I can talk only about a project of mine:
We use XML ...
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Should an IDE include a gaming element?
As of recent I have becomne very interested in serious gaming. Today I ran into this little gem: visual studio achievements and it got me thinking.
I actually think it could be very helpfull and ...
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In which fields does quality of the software product matter as much as the completion time?
Someone told me that if the software product meets clients expectations, it is good quality. But I've worked with Interaction Designers (the same kind of people who made Gmail's interface and ...
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What's so bad about creative coding?
I was watching Bob Ross paint some "happy trees" tonight, and I've figured out what's been stressing me out about my code lately.
The community of folks here and on Stack Overflow seem to reject any ...
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Adding new features to an old application
I wrote a .NET Windows application using framework 3.5. At that time, 3.5 was very new and I had knowledge of framework 2.0 only. Due to deadline, I didn't use any new features of version 3.5 and ...
