I love unit testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD). Ever since I started using them, I felt I became a happier, better, and more productive software developer. I love how TDD “forces” me to think about… Read More »Learning to Unit Test
I had the great pleasure to attend and speak at JPrime, held on the 30-31 of May 2017 in my home town of Sofia, Bulgaria. My talk was about JUnit 5. If you know me… Read More »Speaking about JUnit 5 at JPrime Conference
Programmer Remember your first programs? Your first Hello World? You will launch them from the command line and just print something. Over time your programs became more complex. You still printed a lot of stuff… Read More »Who is watching your logs?
Some time ago, my team was tasked to implement a form in an website. I do not remember exactly the functionality. What I do remember is how we approached the problem with our QA. Our… Read More »Flipping The Reversed Test Pyramid
Retrospection Time for a little reflection. What better time than the end of the year? More than an year ago I joined a small company with a strong engineering team. I have since been impressed by… Read More »Server Gardening
Cleaning up after your code is any activity you do to erase the trace of your code execution. Usually you do this to prevent a side effect that will affect execution of another piece of… Read More »Why you are cleaning after your code
Forgive me Donald, for I have sinned. I deployed code. Code that I haven’t tried. We had an demo coming and I found a bug half an hour before the start. There was no time… Read More »All code must be executed
A story You join new software development team and are eager to learn about the project and make your first contribution. You spend most of your first day in meetings. After waaaay too much information… Read More »Revealing Code Intent With Tests
We were ready After few weeks of hard work, we were finally ready. New feature was developed and tested, database was already changed to accommodate new data. Now it was a matter of just typing… Read More »Keep Calm And Deploy To Production
“This is not supposed to happen” “My VPN is not working” Not something you want to hear when you work late. It was 30 minutes past midnight. Our night deployment was not starting well. I… Read More »My Big Fat Night Deployment