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Be the Garbage Man of your team
Alex KogonDima Kovalenko
Let’s talk about Garbage
My first job
My second job
• Manual testing
No one wants this job!
Solution
• Perl script
Final Thoughts
• Frustration is good• Automation is good• New skills are good
When we do things right, no one knows we exist!
How I learned to be good by doing everything bad
Case Study 1: University Work
Blackboard Coding
• Short ugly variable names• Lots of theory• Lots of coding, little compiling (or testing!)
Result?
Start Over!
• Start small, compile continuously
• Test all the time, even the smallest things
• Code with the debugger!
Times they are a…
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Case Study 2: Reengineering Old Code