Manuel Klimek

Since I got test infected I'm somehow unable to write a single line of untested code without feeling uneasy. When I just want to write a tiny script containing a few lines of code in whatever text editor is installed in a system, it seems to be a daunting task to set up a programming [...]

I had the opportunity to take part in the XPDays Germany last week. The company I work for enabled Uwe, our project lead, Holger and me to participate. It all started with a three and a half hour ride from Munich to Karlsruhe where we heroically overcame a nearly empty tank, a shaking car [...]

"Why not write a test for this?"
"Why should I, it works..."
The idea of Test-After Development is to write a set of automated white-box tests after writing your production code. Since probably every CS student in the world has learned that unit tests are a good idea, you'd expect unit testing to be an industry state [...]

Ten years ago I had a rendezvous with a beautiful girl, and at the end of the evening I gave her a ride home. Back than I thought playing the gentleman to be posh, so I opened the door for her. She slid with one elegant movement into her seat and I paced around the [...]

Software is complicated. More often than not it's a complicated mess. Sometimes even a tangled complicated mess. And wherever you look all you see is tradeoffs. There are no easy solutions (tm). The dll hell is replaced by the side-by-side hell. Emacs is better than Vim, Vim is better than the Visual Studio editor and [...]

Today after our planning game I did a short poll on how the guys perceive test driven development and pair programming. We're trying to do both for some time now, and since I take the blame for introducing both practices, I feel I'm somewhat - um - preoccupied on that matter. A few days ago, [...]

Are you a developer who dreams about a better software development process in the organization you work for? Maybe you read something about fancy practices on your favorite blog or mayhap you even touched one of those old-style paper collections called books? Do you have some concrete ideas on how to improve, but don't know [...]

When I arrived at work today I fired up Outlook and checked my mail. I found five mails from our auto-build server telling me that the build broke. Since we introduced test driven development and continuous integration only a short time ago this was not out of nowhere - the build usually breaks at least [...]

Ed carefully tiptoes towards Karl's desk. "Hey Karl", he cheerily announces: "I still need this time estimation for the Globster project!".
"Yea, right... That was the Irish Coffee feature for their coffee machines at the management offices, wasn't it? I just have to read some specs to figure out what I have to do - give [...]