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 [...]

When I write ruby scripts I like to use a single file, containing the program and all unit tests. It took me some time to find out how to add a command line switch to my ruby scripts that makes them run in script mode with full access to the Test::Unit command line arguments, while [...]

Some time ago a a discussion in the testdrivendevelopment Yahoo-Group evolved around the concept of "testable languages". I thought about this for a while and came up with the idea that I want to be able to have expressions as first class citizens:

assertThat { assertThat(false) } abortsWith TestFailedException

Today I played a little with OCaml, sorted [...]

"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 [...]

Scene 1. Karl and J.B. are pairing on a small web service. Karl is just returning to the workplace with a steaming, hot cup of coffee in his hand.
Karl: 'Let me see what you wrote just now...
usUserName = request.getParameter("UserName");
Um... This variable, usUserName, what does the us-prefix stand for?'
J.B.: 'Well, that is the unescaped user [...]

CMake is one of the best build tools out there. It has a nice command line interface and comes with an even nicer GUI. Unfortunately the GUI is MFC based, which means you need a VC professional license to build it for windows and you can't use it in linux.
Since Trolltech released it's wonderful GUI [...]

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, [...]

Steve McConnell responds to Eric Wise's article Rejecting Software Engineering that Rumors of Software Engineering's Death are Greatly Exaggerated". There's a lot of fuzz about the usage of the word "engineering" when it comes to software development. What's this all about?
What is engineering?
According to wikipedia, engineering is defined by the ECPD as

The creative application of [...]