https://blog.foundev.pro/tags/Craftsmanship.htmlRecent content in Craftsmanship on Random RamblingsHugoen-usFri, 04 Feb 2011 22:51:00 +0000https://blog.foundev.pro/2011/02/04/the-difficult-definition-of-professional-software-development.htmlFri, 04 Feb 2011 22:51:00 +0000https://blog.foundev.pro/2011/02/04/the-difficult-definition-of-professional-software-development.html<h1>The difficult definition of professional software development</h1> Here are some of the contradictory phrases (and a few paraphrases) I&#8217;ve overheard used to define what is &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;bad&#8221; code. <ul> <li>Code should always be well commented</li> <li>Maintainable code has unit tests and well named methods therefore needs little if any comments</li> <li>Class explosion is to be avoided at all costs</li> <li>Many small simple well named classes are the key to well organized code</li> <li>Unit tests really don’t test anything useful</li> <li>Dependency injection leads to an unusable mess</li> <li>Dependency Injection is a very useful tool for making your code extensible and easily reused”</li> <li>Inheritance leads to solid code reuse</li> <li>Inheritance is the strongest coupling of your code you can have</li> <li>Functional programming simplifies and minimizes the complexity of your code</li> <li>Functional programing just makes my eyes bleed!</li> <li>Static global references are ‘just programming’ and something you have to learn how to manage to make simple easy to understand code</li> <li>Static global spiderwebs are crippling to maintenance and program lifetime</li> </ul> <p> </p>