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Presentation: The Ethics of Error Prevention
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Summary
We're charged with the task of writing software that is reliable, sturdy, and trustworthy. We could all write tests and extensive preconditions for our code, and choose languages which make errors less likely, but across the industry we don't do any of these things uniformly. Michael Feathers looks at error-prevention in the short history of our discipline and considers our possible futures.
Bio
Michael Feathers is a consultant with Object Mentor. He balances his time between working with, training and coaching various teams around the world. Publically, Michael developed Cppunit, the initial port of JUnit to C++, and FitCpp, a C++ port of the FIT integrated-test framework. Michael is also the author of the book 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code' (Prentice Hall 2004).
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Mar 15, 2009
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Is there a downloadable version of this presentation? My company doesn't allow streaming video. I have a team of about 10 developers who SO need to watch this!!!
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Not sure if it's legal, but you can:
- at home
- with Firefox
- and DownloadHelper extension
- click Play once, so that DownloadHelper can see the video (DownloadHelper doesn't seem to support infoq.com directly)
- then download it with DownloadHelper