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For years, I can remember fighting the good fight for unit testing.  When I started that fight, I understood a simple premise.  We, as programmers, automate things.  So, why not automate testing? Of all things, a grad school course in software engineering introduced me to the concept back in 2005.  It hooked me ...

As a teenager, I remember having a passing interest in hacking.  Perhaps this came from watching the movie Sneakers.  Whatever the origin, the fancy passed quickly because I prefer building stuff to breaking other people's stuff.  Therefore, what I know about hacking pretty much stops at understanding terminology and high ...

A little while back, I started a post series explaining some of the CodeIt.Right rules.  I led into the post with a narrative, which I won't retell.  But I will reiterate the two rules that I follow when it comes to static analysis tooling. Never implement a suggested fix without knowing what makes it a fix. Never ignore ...

The v3.0 of CodeIt.Right v3 is here – the new major version of our automated code review and code quality analysis product. Here are the v3.0 new feature highlights: VS2017 RC integration Official support for VS2015 Update 3 and ASP.NET 5/ASP.NET Core 1.0 solutions Solution filtering by date, source control status and file ...

I've heard tell of a social experiment conducted with monkeys.  It may or may not be apocryphal, but it illustrates an interesting point.  So, here goes. Primates and Conformity A group of monkeys inhabited a large enclosure, which included a platform in the middle, accessible by a ladder.  For the experiment, their ...

We have just made available the Release Candidate of CodeIt.Right v3.0, here is the new feature highlights: VS2017 RC integration Solution filtering by date, source control status and file patterns Summary report view (announced as the Dashboard in the Beta preview) - provides a summary view of the analysis results and metrics, ...

During my younger days, I worked for a company that made a habit of a strategic acquisition.  They didn't participate in Time Warner style mergers, but periodically they would purchase a smaller competitor or a related product.  And on more than one occasion, I inherited the lead role for the assimilating software from one of ...

The balance among types of feedback drives some weird interpersonal dynamics and balances.  For instance, consider the rather trite (if effective) management technique of the ''compliment sandwich.''  Managers with a negative piece of feedback precede and follow that feedback with compliments.  In that fashion, the compliments ...

More years ago than I'd care to admit, I took a software engineering course as part of my graduate CS program.  At the time, I worked a full-time job during the day and did remote classes in the evening.  As a result, I disproportionately valued classes with applicability to my job.  And this class offered plenty ...

In professional contexts, I think that the word ''standard'' has two distinct flavors.  So when we talk about a ''team standard'' or a ''coding standard,'' the waters muddy a bit.  In this post, I'm going to make the case for a team standard.  But before I do, I think it important to discuss these flavors that I mention.  ...