There are tools like SonarQube that watches and enforces minimum quality standards, but are they actually helping? — Some articles ago, I talked about the only utility for code coverage. It was not quality, but code coverage is one of metrics that the companies tend to enforce to its employees. For example, if the code coverage is under an arbitrary number, let's say 87%, the pull request is…

Avoiding the cognitive overload of a programmer is key to avoid bugs and accelerate the development. One of the podcasts that I usually listen is “No Stupid Questions.” This Monday, I listened the episode “How Simple Is Too Simple?” In that episode, they challenged the Occam Razor, and exposed the…

Several companies and governments set a minim for the code coverage, but does it make sense? — A few years ago, a colleague was working in a company developing a product. One day, their organization saw the possibility of licensing it to a government agency. The fit was almost perfect, except for one metric: the code coverage. I do not remember exactly the percentage, let's say 80%…

In Carl Sagan 1979 said: «Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.» Do we have the extraordinary evidence? — The Software Industry is very recent, and we are still learning. Just fifty years ago, in 1970, Winston Royce gave some order and methodology when he presented the paper “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems”. It was the origin of the Waterfall. A few years later, governments, companies and…

There is something wrong with Pull Requests, and you can feel it, but you do not know whether it is real or not. — There are some ideas, that are excellent when you see them, but it turns out that after some evaluation, they are not as good as it seems. I do not have clear which is the origin of the Pull Requests, but the first time that I saw them, it was…

There is a hidden economy of bugs in most software development organizations, as a result of perverse incentives. — When the British began to colonize India, they found that there were millions of poisonous cobras. These cobras were able to kill a human in less than thirty minutes. It was dangerous for the armies, but also for the families that wanted to relocate to India, so they decided to…

It may seem ridicule, but there is a test definition that impairs the quality of the code and makes coders anxious. — I remember the first time that I heard about TDD and Extreme Programming. They were defined as a practice that made the programmer happy. I remember being in the meetup and the speaker showing pictures of happy coders, laughing and having a good time. I did not understand that talk.

Several years ago, I learned the definition of Intelligence. A few weeks ago, I discovered that it is also the Architecture definition. — What is Intelligence? I remember, while taking my courses in the university about Artificial Intelligence, the professor defined intelligence as the entity that behaves intelligently. It was a strange definition, and a tautology indeed. He justified with examples like the Turing Test was useless, if you ask a multiplication of two big numbers…