Publications de Pierre TOP

Divide and Conquer Since three out of four small businesses fail, my recommendation is to start a large business. Legacy Code and SOTA "Legacy code" is often used to characterize old software systems inflicted with a crucial maintenance debt that accumulated for years. But legacy code can happen very soon in a project. The best intentions, plus a misaligned or degrading SOTA (State Of The Art) can change your greenfield project into a legacy code factory in a matter of 3 to 6 months, before…

Diviser et régner Since three out of four small businesses fail, my recommendation is to start a large business. Code "Legacy" et Etat de l'Art (SOTA) Le terme "legacy" s'utilise souvent pour décrire des systèmes informatiques anciens souffrant d'une dette de maintenance majeure accumulée au fil des ans. Mais le code legacy code peut surgir très tôt dans un projet. Même avec les meilleures intention du monde, une équipe dont l'état de l'art (SOTA) est désaligné ou dégradé peut transformer votre projet "greenfield" en une…

What is legacy code? "Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don't know if our code is getting better or worse.” “To me, legacy code is simply code without tests.” Michael Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code "The code has no tests." Such a report often strikes me as a…

Qu’est-ce que le code legacy ? "Le code sans test est du mauvais code. Peu importe qu’il soit bien écrit; peu importe à quel point il est élégant, orienté-objet ou encapsulé. Avec des tests, nous pouvons changer le comportement de notre code rapidement et de manière fiable. Sans eux, nous ne pouvons pas réellement savoir si l’état du code s’améliore ou empire.” “En ce qui me concerne, le code legacy est simplement du code sans tests.” Michael Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code "Ce code…

"There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person’s lawful prey. It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common…

Should we write unit tests or integration tests ? "There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person’s lawful prey. It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing…