Deepak Karanth is the founder of SoftwareYoga.com. His passion is to help organizations create great software. He blogs regularly on both the technical and the human side of software development.
This is the second post in the series on SOLID Software Principles. We previously covered the Single Responsibility Principle. In this post, we cover the second of the SOLID Principles – The O in SOLID - The Open Closed Principle. Software systems need to be maintainable and easily extendable in the long run. Good architects and…
This post discusses a concept called Cyclomatic complexity, a quantitative approach to measure the complexity of code. Complex code is always difficult to maintain and modify. Every good developer knows that. Often this is an issue that is ignored or given less attention than it deserves by non-tech project managers and management. One of the…
In this article, we look at the positives and negatives of individual code ownership in Agile teams. An alternative approach, the Collective code ownership is probably more advantageous to most organizations in the long run. Individual code ownership In many companies, a few developers are assigned an area of code that they are responsible and…
There are two types of software development teams, ones that follow Individual code ownership and ones that follow Collective code ownership. It is never a straight forward decision to choose between the two as there are positives and shortcomings in both approaches. In this post, we discuss the strengths and weakness of Collective code ownership.…
The word fallacy/fallacies means - A false or mistaken idea It would be an understatement to say that technology in the last 20 years has improved drastically. The rapid innovations in technology has helped us scale heights previously thought impossible. Both software and hardware technologies are seeing unprecedented growth in speed, affordability, variety and dare…
This is the first in the series of posts on SOLID Software Principles. The first of the SOLID Principles - The S in SOLID, is the Single Responsibility Principle. It’s purpose is simple and concise to state - Every class should have only a single responsibility. What does that mean? And why should you care…
Everyone needs SOLID code! Good programmers always strive to improve the code, making it more maintainable, easy to comprehend and extensible. These kind of improvements are generally carried out based on intuition and personal experiences in the past. However, wouldn’t it be great if every developer had some common set of rules to follow to…
So you love programming. And you want to be invaluable and be recognized at your job? First, let me tell you a story. Roger’s story Roger loves programming, he has been doing it for years. Programming is one of the few hobbies he likes, if not the only one! He is a developer in a…
Books are a great source of knowledge and wisdom. But unfortunately, there are very few people reading books today. A programmer reading books is an even rarer occurrence, most often relying on the internet search results to find answers. Technology is moving forward at a pace faster than anytime in the history of mankind, there…
Sprint length: 1, 2, 3 or 4? How long is the sprint in your company? How was it determined? In most organisations it is not given much of a thought except for the very rudimentary aspects. In some companies it is as short as 1 week, in others it is up-to 4-6 weeks, the most common…