legacy

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…

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…