10 Pair Programming Best Practices Questions & Answers
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a guest post on Philippe’s blog where I answered 10 commonly asked questions
5 XP practices that will make your remote team more effective
By focusing on small increments and collaboration, XP practices like CI, Pair or Mob programming, TDD, continuous refactoring and TCR make remote work easier.
Faster Testing of the JPA Repository in Spring Applications
In the ‘Clean Code‘ book, Uncle Bob defined the five characteristics of a clean test. Those characteristics have the acronym FIRST;
Mars Rover – Refactoring Kata
On several occasions, I have used the Mars Rover challenge to train developers on TDD principles. This time, I am
Tutorial: How to configure maven surefire plugin work with JUnit 5
Recently, I had a task to migrate the unit tests in our project from ‘JUnit 4’ to ‘JUnit 5’. As
How to become a better developer!
The fast and constant change in technology made it inevitable for developers to always improve their skills through continuous learning.
My takeaways from a TDD debate between Cope & Uncle Bob
As a developer, there is a high chance that you had a debate on the value of TDD in building
An agile approach to defining your product vision!
‘What is your team working on?’ Of course, you’ve heard this question many times before and probably your answer will slightly differ
How to handle Java exceptions in clean code? – Part 2
In my previous post, I explained the different types of exceptions in Java and left two questions for this post!
How to handle Java exceptions in clean code? – Part 1
Reading the chapter ‘Error Handling‘ from the book ‘Clean Code‘ made me think whether developers follow the clean code rules when
XP Days Benelux
On the 24th and the 25th of November, I was (with ten of my colleagues) in Heeze, Kapellerput in the
AHMAD ATWI 