Be the Garbage Man of your team

Alex KogonDima Kovalenko

Let’s talk about Garbage

My first job

My second job

• Manual testing

No one wants this job!

Solution

• Perl script

Final Thoughts

• Frustration is good• Automation is good• New skills are good

When we do things right, no one knows we exist!

How I learned to be good by doing everything bad

Case Study 1: University Work

Blackboard Coding

• Short ugly variable names• Lots of theory• Lots of coding, little compiling (or testing!)

Result?

Start Over!

• Start small, compile continuously

• Test all the time, even the smallest things

• Code with the debugger!

Times they are a…

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Case Study 2: Reengineering Old Code