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Software Quality and Testing

• Why We Conduct Bug Bashes – Steve Rowe explains how and why he and his team at Microsoft is using “Bug Bashing” to increase the quality of their project
• The Curious Case of Software Quality – Keyvan Nayyeri on rapid software development and software quality
• Stack Overflow Podcast – Joel and Jeff sit down with Robert Martin aka “Uncle Bob”, and discuss software quality, the value of software engineering principles, and test-driven development
• Backwards Compatibility is Technical Debt – “Like duplication, backwards compatibility leading to huge amounts of technical debt can eventually crush a project. You need a plan to get rid of it.”
• Your Unit Tests Lie to You – What unit tests are and what they are not

Performance and Scalability

• Performance Rules Of Thumb – Some basic rules for performance optimization
• Sharing Is the Root of All Contention – Herb Sutter: “Sharing requires waiting and overhead, and is a natural enemy of scalability”
• Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications High Scalability with an interesting transcript of a presentation by Joe Stump, Lead Architect at Digg

Usability and Accessibility

• Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998 Jakob Nielsen on the mobile web and why it feels like the web from the last decade
• What Can Interaction Design Learn From Sound Design? – Tim Stutts compares sound design with interaction design and usability

Security

• Schneier on Security: Insiders – Schneier on security techniques to prevent abuse by trusted users

Process and Methodology

• In Defense of Uncle Bob and the SOLID Principles – “I, and my company, have found the SOLID principles very beneficial for the quality of the software systems we build.”
• Getting a SOLID start – Robert Martin discusses the SOLID principles and how to start using them

Misc

• Bugs of Doom (aka the Heisenbugs) – Louis Brandy on Heisenbugs and analysis of real-life occurrences
• Why HTTP? – “In the end the rules are simple. Is it possible to do over HTTP? Then do it over HTTP.”
• Organizing Software Projects – Best practices on how to organize file and directory structures of software projects
• Git is the C of Version Control Tools – Eric Sink compares git with C: “C is fast, hard-to-learn and it allows the developer to do things that are probably a bad idea. Git could be described in exactly the same way.”

Related posts:

1. Software Quality Digest – 2009-07-27
2. Software Quality Digest – 2009-03-13
3. Software Quality Digest – 2009-04-06

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