Published inBetter Programming·PinnedMember-onlyAvoiding Premature Software AbstractionsHow we removed 80% of our code — improving development speed and reducing errors — Software developers love abstractions. Abstractions are great and absolute key for efficient development. Writing software using solely 1’s and 0’s would be quite the chore after all. The problem comes when abstractions are introduced prematurely, i.e., before they are solving a real non-theoretical problem. Adding abstractions always comes at the…Programming13 min readProgramming13 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Mar 8, 2022Member-onlyThe Decorator Pattern, Why We Stopped Using It, and the AlternativeIssues arising from the decorator pattern and how to avoid them — The decorator pattern is a well-known and widely used programming design pattern. At first glance, the pattern seems to fit multiple software development principles and best practices, however, after years of using the pattern, we have noticed some serious issues. …Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Dec 8, 2021Member-onlyWhy We Quit Unit Testing Classes to Focus On a Behavioral ApproachWhy you should consider avoiding class-level tests, in favor of a behavior-oriented approach — I recently wrote a post explaining how we removed 80% of our code by avoiding premature software abstractions and how that greatly improved development efficiency and reduced errors. One point that I largely left out of that post, was our decision to completely stop writing unit tests for individual classes…Programming10 min readProgramming10 min read
