Rick van den Bosch - Blog

Why elaboration should be done with a SMALL team

A [wikipedia:RUP] project consists of 4 different phases. The elaboration phase (the second phase in the RUP project lifecycle ) is normally done with a small team. One of the important reasons for this is that you want to define the basic form of your...

'100% code coverage, unless...'

When asked about my point of view about a guideline concerning code coverage, my answer always is: go for 100% code coverage. 100%, unless... Here is why. When the guideline for code coverage is 80% (not an uncommon guideline) the devil is in the details...

This is NOT a test.

Test Driven Development is hot, just like unit testing your software and any other kinds of (automated) testing. And as we all know: sometimes stuff that's hot is misinterpreted, explained wrong or just simply used in a really bad way. Unfortunately...

Our postal service is like a service bus

I ordered some stuff through the internet a week ago. The packet was sent through the Dutch postal service. They have a track and trace website, that shows where your parcel is at that moment, and where it has been. And that website made me realise the...

Get maintenance involved in your project. Early.

Last week we had a meeting with our contact at the department that will be maintaining the software we're going to be developing in our upcoming project. Normally, these kinds of meetings take place in the end of a project, sometimes even under some (release) stress. At least, that was the case for all the previous projects I was involved in at the customer I'm currently at. Most of the time this is because people want to start developing the software instead of thinking about things that are not necessarily their area of expertise......