Agile Development

Essential and accidental difficulties

Code Complete book explains this phenomenon in Chapter 5:

• Essential difficulty — it’s required things to to in order to have the user story done. Basically, essential things are described in acceptance criteria

Constants in unit tests

I like to use constant literals in tests instead of constants itself.

Timeboxing problems

If I have a problem I usually time-box it for 30 mins, just to try to solve it myself and get more context if I need help.

If I not succeed after 30 mins I ask for help and can make good questions, so I don’t annoy ppl with stupid things.