While making good programs is enough to appease programmers, it is not enough to please your customers. Think of the apps you use every day, why do you use that app in particular and not the ones owned by their competitors? Chances are, the reason has to do with the…

Refactoring is a way to improve your code without changing its external behavior. This is done to transform your code from a mess that only a compiler can read, to a beautiful script that would leave your fellow developers in awe. One way to refactor your app is to apply…

In order to release your product to the general public, you would need to deploy it. Nowadays, deployment can be done automatically instead of manually, this process is called continuous delivery, or CD for short. You could also automate all processes prior to deployment, such as running tests automatically. …

Today’s tools for software development are so numerous that it’s difficult to keep track of all the technologies used in a project. …

It is not uncommon for a certain class, function, or component to depend on external functionalities to make them work. For example, a class in Java might call a function from another class, or the fronted of an application would fetch a get request from a backend API. This creates…

So you’ve made your unit and functional tests for your product. You then made the code and voila! The test passes, your code coverage is high, and now your code is perfect, right? Not quite. Remember that we as developers are building the products for our customers. If they don’t…

What’s most important in a software development process? Is it the team? The quality of the product? The timing of the release? Or is it the maintenance after the product is released to the public? The answer is all of them. All aspects mentioned above are all needed in order…

I get it, we all do. Testing is not exactly the most fun thing we can do in development. But you know what’s even less fun than testing? That’s right, debugging. If only there was a way to anticipate bugs and errors in our code before it actually happens. …

If up to this point you were a lone developer, you might have never even thought of needing to use git. However, when working in a team, you would definitely need a tool to control work between multiple developers within the same project. …