Sadek Drobi’s Blog

On JAOO 2007 I could, with the help of Floyd, organize a debate between Bob Martin and James Coplien about TDD and DbC. This is the most interesting debate about the subject I’ve ever heard of. A lot of things I wanted to say have been said here. And I am proud to announce it

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/coplien-martin-tdd

Thanks Cope, thanks Bob.

Today, many software project management and architecture approaches tend to parcel out  work on a project creating hierarchical layers. This helps to simplify both developers work and management. However, the undelying information shielding among layers can  potentially create a gap between developers and the software they are working on, if developers task are totally taken out of functional context.

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Larger team size prevents from adopting the whole range of language abstraction tools and puts constraints on productivity. Reg Braithwaite believes that tools should not be tuned to the size of the team. He advocates for building teams around the tools and keeping them small. It appears however that team growth is often inevitable. What can be done then to maintain quality and productivity?

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This post has been originally posted on infoQ on Religion driven industry: buzzwords and checklists vs. thinking and inspection

James O. Coplien has recently argued that today’s industry is based on buzzwords and checklists. The use of some techniques and methodologies, TDD for instance, has become “a religious issue”. This prevents from inspecting possible tradeoffs and focusing on finding solutions that would be the most appropriate and the most cost-effective . (more…)