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Kill the Mutants - A Better Way to Test Your Tests
Roy van Rijn explains what mutation testing is and how it works, comparing several Java frameworks (PIT, Jester, Jumble) that enable automatic mutation testing in a continuous build.
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Introduction to Java Profiling
Jerry Yoakum discusses how code profiling tools and techniques can be used to evaluate code for constructions and errors that are likely to cause problems, highlight places in need of refactoring.
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Making the Case for Review
Austin Bingham answers questions on reviews: how long should they be, what should be reviewed, how do reviews account for an increase in quality and ROI?
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Microservices: Software that Fits in Your Head
Dan North describes a model for thinking about the age of code and argues for replaceability as a first class concern, ending up with something that looks a lot like microservices.
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Beautiful Structure
Chris Chedgey explores how “locality of relationship” affects coupling, cohesion, and the width of interfaces, showing structural patterns that increase or decrease complexity.
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Opportunities to Improve System Reliability and Resilience
Donald Belcham explains how to improve a system’s reliability by using appropriate code patterns.
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Naming Things
Ian Barber discusses the importance of behavior, domains and clarity of the names used when writing software or building systems.
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Reducing External Risk
Donald Belcham presents design patterns and development concepts that protects one’s code from external systems that may change in uncontrollable ways.
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Groovy and Grails Puzzlers - As Usual - Traps, Pitfalls, and End Cases
Baruch Sadogursky and Fred Simon discuss the Groovy version of the epic Java Puzzlers.
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Treat Your Code as a Crime Scene
Adam Tornhill teaches how to predict bugs, detect architectural decay and find the code that is most expensive to maintain, how to evaluate knowledge drain in a codebase, and much more.
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Tiny
Chad Fowler attempts to convince people that keeping things "tiny" –small iterations, small methods, small teams - is the best thing one can do for himself and his team.
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Workflows of Refactoring
Martin Fowler keynotes on the need for refactoring and different ways to approach it. You can view here part 2 of this presentation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/healthy-social-environment.
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