Agile Software Development by Robert Martin

The Single-Responsibility Principle

Today is January 01, 2017. Happy and prosperous New Year!!!

As I have mentioned in prior blog entries, among many other activities, I enjoy reading technical books in order to learn, refresh and on occasions question what some may consider common knowledge. One of the books that I am currently reading is “Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns and Development” by Robert C. Martin. So far, I recommend this book to people studying and practicing computer science. Continue reading “The Single-Responsibility Principle”

Prime Numbers

The motivation for this entry is based on chapter 5 of the book Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns and Practices by Robert Martin. In that chapter the author writes an initial program with correct output. The issue is that it is not as simple to follow (and possibly maintain) as the final one. The final one is longer but much easier to follow.

I was not able to find the source code in the URL specified by the book: www.objectmentor.com/PPP (the domain is up for grabs). I wanted to determine if the performance would be different (better) for the short program when compared against the longer one, which also outputs the same results. Continue reading “Prime Numbers”

Test Driven Development

What is Test Driven Development? Is it useful? Should I and my team make use of it?

According to Wikipedia (I have edited the following paragraphs):

“Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: Requirements are turned into very specific test cases. The software is improved to pass new tests, only. This is opposed to software development that allows software to be added that is not proven to meet requirements. Continue reading “Test Driven Development”