So many problems in legacy applications stem from invalid state being dragged around throughout the whole application and causing a bug somewhere far away from its origin or just dying a silent death. I’d like to introduce you to a method to handle invalid state in new code without...
In the past months, I have asked myself a lot why we always strive to write perfect code. Picking up coding again for an internal project made me realise our team (and probably a large part of the rest of the software development world) spend a lot of time on...
When working on a legacy codebase, you often have to make changes in code you don’t fully understand. When this code is not tested, you’re never sure that it will still work after adapting it. And will it have unexpected effects on other parts of the codebase? As...