Occasional musings on software development, tech, the Middle East, and anything else.
One of the most transformative pieces of wisdom I've gotten in my career is Titus Winters 's ToTW #122 on test dataflow clarity. The Tip of the Week (ToTW) series offers advice focused on C++. Like Testing on the Toilet , which offers advice and best practices for software engineering at Google generally, it has become a fixture within the engineering culture, frequently cited in code reviews…
The conventional wisdom of the software engineering community is that striving to 100% test coverage is a fool's errand. It won't necessarily help you catch all bugs, and it might lead you down questionable paths when writing your code. My recent attempts at 100% test coverage showed me the answer is much more subtle. At times I was tempted to make questionable code changes just for the sake of…
