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Debugging a Complex Problem? Think Like an Epidemiologist

It's hard to know what's really going on inside your body, so researchers use the Bradford Hill Criteria to explore problems. Developers can use it too.

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Today’s Code Is Tomorrow’s Legacy Project – Make It Easy to Resurrect

Getting legacy projects running again is never fun. Leave some breadcrumbs, and your colleagues & future self will thank you.

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WebDriver Testing Fun Times: When Threes Didn’t Exist

Checking the version of your software and the change log can lead to some very important discoveries. It might even lead you to the solution right away.

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Five Build Commands to Make Project Onboarding Faster & Easier

New team members should be able to jump in and run your project in 10 minutes, flat. So the next time you start a new project, write your Makefile first.

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Six Strategies to Spend Less Time Debugging

Sometimes time pressures require a shot-in-the-dark solution. But your codebase will be healthier if you understand the root cause of the issue.

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How Do You Know When to Refactor Your Code?

It's really rewarding to get a chunk of code refactored, but it comes at a price; time spent refactoring is time you aren't developing features.

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Making Your System Tests More Readable

When system tests are written well, they can be a source of documentation and a tool to show others how the app should behave.

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Be Expressive: How to Give Your Variables Better Names

Well named variables are one of the most useful things you can do to build a maintainable and predictable codebases. They make code seem effortless.

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Using State Tables for Testing

Using state tables for testing is great for situations where there are a variety of inputs for a function that produce different results.

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Naming Things Is Hard

It’s easy for a dev team to agree on what to name things, but their conventions won't be obvious to the software's end users, or to future developers.

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TODO Comments Don’t Work

Comments, without a large amount of maintenance overhead, tend to become stale and misleading. TODO comments are no different.

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Intro to Mocking with Moq

Mock objects allow you to mimic the behavior of classes and interfaces, letting the code in the test interact with them as if they were real.

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