There’s a popular video game I used to play as a kid called “Asteroids”. The player controls a spaceship in the center of the screen. Asteroids of various sizes move across the screen. If an asteroid that is too large hits the spaceship, it explodes. The player can avoid this by incrementally breaking larger asteroids [...]

    Frank Knight in his dissertation Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (1921) made a distinction between risk and uncertainty.  With risk he states you have the ability to project future outcomes on the basis of a probability distribution. In other words, you can estimate the likelihood of a particular event within a reasonably precise confidence interval. This is similar, [...]

Where is that checklist again? I often find myself asking. Over the years, I built up a set of checklists. These lists including tools & methods, are based on my personal experience and they were very effective for teams I’ve worked with, since those teams span over various companies, sizes and even countries, I think these tools also may very well apply to your team.

To reduce duplication and rigidity of the programmer test relationship to implementation code, move away from class and methods as the definition of a “unit” in your unit tests. Instead, use the following question to drive your next constraint on the software: What should the software do next for the user? The following coding session [...]