Abstract The popular practice of having only two different kinds of builds ( Debug and Release ) is shown to be inadequate. Thr...

GitLab allows the insertion of images in code review comments. They make it really easy: if you have an image on the clipboard, you can...

In languages like Java and C# Abstract The need is identified for programmatically ascertaining the immutability of certain obje...

Summary Type names as reported by the dotnet runtime are in a cryptic, non-human-readable format. Attempts by many to solve this prob...

Virtually everyone claims to be doing Unit Testing, but there is a surprising amount of disagreement as to how unit testing is de...

I just wrote a code review comment that I feel particularly smug about. The code I was reviewing: class PointClouds ... My comme...

Abstract: A software testing tool is presented, which uses dependency analysis to greatly optimize the process of running tes...

While working on code in the context of a certain task, a programmer often discovers some preexisting quality issue. When this happens...

Visual Studio is a capricious product, and its "Solution" subsystem is especially capricious. When you look at what opt...

The Mike Nakis formula for calculating the impact of an incident: I = S × G × T Where: I is the impact of the incident. S is the...

I have a lot to say about the modern trend in graphical user interface design which aims to achieve an impossibly clean look at th...

Abstract: An automated software testing technique is presented which spares us from having to stipulate our expectations in test...

Abstract: In this paper I put forth the proposition that contrary to popular belief, 100% code coverage can be a very advantageo...

What is the most important quality of software? Correctness, they say. And what is the second most important quality of software? R...

The term "dependency" is used very often in software engineering, but depending on context, it may mean slightly differ...

Abstract In technical design of software systems as conventionally practiced, call graphs often contain cycles. We show that cyc...

Abstract In this paper we examine the long-standing need within the Software Engineering Discipline for technical design docume...

I recently did this at work, and I decided to document the process here in the form of a how-to guide. Please note that I am not ...

I am giving this tool a try at work, and I am encountering a great many problems with it. I decided to publicly document my findi...

I recently did this at work, and I decided to document the process here in the form of a how-to guide. Please note that I am not ...