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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 [...]

I have been using a tool for some time with clients and teams to find out what software quality attributes the product development team should focus on in the project. ISO standard 9621 describes the quality attributes found in software. The following image shows the 6 categories and specific attributes contained within them. Before I [...]

Genius, the Modern View is the title of David Brook’s column today in the New York times.   To briefly summarize, the traditional perspective on genius is that on rare occasions very special people are born that because of their genetic disposition naturally behave in qualitatively superior ways. The modern perspective is that the difference between [...]