The productive path to establishing and maintaining effective test automation is not easy. In this post, explore well-intentioned yet harmful anti-patterns.
Mutation testing and property-based testing are two relatively niche technologies in the Java tester s toolkit. Broad adoption is not recommended: they can make well-tested code even more robust but are a waste of time in projects with poor test maturity.
How to Write Self-Documented Code With Low Cognitive Complexity
Cognitive and Cyclomatic complexity metrics let developers measure code quality, establish a dialogue with business, and put measurable goals in refactoring. by
In this article, I will share practical and straightforward advice on how to stop (
holy wars) arguing about code quality and find measurable arguments about the necessity of refactoring, simplification, adding comments or documentation for the code. While I’m going to refer to exact commercial tools in the second half of the article, I should say that I’m not affiliated anyhow with the tool s authors. The tools are available via free community licenses as well as commercial licenses.