Articles tagged ‘maintenance’
Identify workarounds in bug reports
Bug reports for knowledge-centred over achievers • 2022-11-15
Identify context and environment in bug reports
Why bug reports get rejected because ‘it works on my machine’ • 2022-11-08
List reproduction steps in bug reports
How to make bugs reproducible so they get fixed • 2022-11-01
Describe expected behaviour in bug reports
Comparing notes on software behaviour expectations • 2022-10-25
Minimum viable bug report
The most important bug report information… to start with • 2022-10-18
Implement a zero-bug policy
How to manage bugs during software product development • 2021-01-05
The good kind of legacy code
A supply chain software maintenance project story from 2012 • 2020-03-04
The worst kind of legacy code
A supply chain software maintenance project story from 2006 • 2020-02-25
Extensive technical documentation
An asset management software maintenance project story from 1997 • 2020-02-19
How to write unmaintainable code
Tribute to the classic thesis by Roedy Green • 2018-09-04
Three causes of unmaintainable code
Why programmers are lazy and too clever for their own good • 2018-08-20
Language expressiveness versus code maintainability
How different programming languages lead to different software maintenance challenges • 2018-08-13
Software maintenance’s terrible question
The big question that teams don’t ask about software products • 2018-07-09
The code maintenance problem
Why software maintenance is worth talking about • 2018-06-26
Comments are the introduction
three ways to introduce code • 2014-11-03
How to comment code
What you have to actually do to get good comments • 2014-10-09
3 kinds of good comments
Code tells you what and how - you need comments to say why • 2014-10-08
7 ways to write bad comments
Things you don’t want to do to your code • 2014-10-07
Code comments and metaphysical subjectivism
The philosophy of software maintenance and the objective meaning of legacy code • 2014-07-29