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Brian Foote on the State of OOP, Refactoring, Code Quality

Topics
Code Quality,
Javascript,
Dynamic Languages,
Web Development,
Quality,
QCon San Francisco 2011,
SmallTalk,
OOP,
NoSQL,
Object Oriented Design,
Languages,
QCon,
Software Craftsmanship,
Methodologies,
Conferences,
Testing,
Database,
Design,
Agile,
Maintenance,
Programming,
Refactoring

Brian Foote looks back at the promises of OOP and discusses which, if any, of them became reality. Also: a look at NoSQL, refactoring and code quality, testing and static typing and more.

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Amazon RDS: MySQL Database as a Cloud Service

Topics
Amazon Web Services,
Amazon,
MySQL,
Operations,
Relational Databases,
IaaS,
Companies,
Architecture,
Infrastructure,
Database,
Cloud Computing,
Amazon SimpleDB,
Maintenance,
Database Replication,
Amazon RDS

Amazon recently added a new MySQL database offering to their Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform named Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). InfoQ explores the benefits and shortcomings of this new service, how it compares to running a local MySQL database, maintenance and replication, the 4-hour weekly downtime window requirement, availability zones, and future plans.

Articles about Maintenance

Implementation Decision Rationales – Program Comprehension in Agile

Topics
Delivering Quality,
Quality,
Software Craftsmanship,
Agile,
Documentation,
Maintenance,
Programming

Given the fact that the bulk of a developer's work is maintaining and enhancing existing code, Fabian Kiss makes the case for a lightweight approach to documenting the rationale and decision process behind design decisions to help later developers tie the source code syntax to its meaning in the application domain. Using simple tags and clearly thought out rationale to provide just-enough value.

Presentations about Maintenance

Living and Working with Aging Software

Topics
Code Quality,
Quality,
QCon,
Software Craftsmanship,
Process,
Conferences,
Architecture,
Maintenance,
QCon London 2010,
Refactoring,
Agile

Ralph Johnson discusses principles, practices and tools relating to software development starting not from scratch but from already existing code which needs refactoring, maintenance, and sometimes architectural change.

Devs Are From Mars. SETs Are Too.

Topics
Test Automation,
Operations,
Tools,
QCon,
Automation,
Deployment,
Conferences,
Agile,
Infrastructure,
Maintenance,
QCon London 2010,
Testing,
Cloud Computing

Simon Stewart presents the activity of Google’s Engineering Productivity team and the role Software Engineers in Test (SETs) play in helping software developers to make their code more maintainable, recommending some of their tools: Gold linker, Eclipse, distcc, JDepend, graphviz.

Bad Code, Craftsmanship, Engineering, and Certification

Topics
Continuous Integration,
Quality,
TDD,
Methodologies,
Agile Techniques,
QCon,
Software Craftsmanship,
Maintenance,
Agile,
Certification,
Code Coverage,
Programming,
Conferences,
Testing,
QCon London 2010,
Coding Standards,
Craftsmanship

Robert C. Martin, during his keynote at QCon London 2010, tried to figure out why there is so much bad code written. He offers advice on writing good code talking about a bad code example, Boy Scout rule, functions, arguments, craftsmanship, TDD, continuous integration, pairing, small cycles, patterns, engineering, certification, and other elements contributing to qualitative code.

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Brian Marick on Test Maintenance

Topics
Integration Test,
Test Automation,
Agile Techniques,
Unit Testing,
Strange Loop,
Integration Testing,
Automation,
TDD,
Conferences,
Agile,
Testing,
Maintenance

Brian Marick discusses the difficulties met trying to maintain tests that are vital to a project’s success, and how mocking frameworks can help, providing advice on writing unit and integration tests