Mastering Any Technical Debt

Product Status Peek – 2011

We are starting the year with some great product advances. Typemock Isolator++   We have released version 1.1, with many bug fixes and 2 major features: 1. Continuing with our beliefs, now there is no need to change the production code at all! 2. There is a new api to fake out and ref arguments 3. No, we haven’t completed our port to GCC [...]

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Unacceptable: Unit testing will take 20 years to catch on

  May 6, 2010
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During the Typemock Partnership Academy Panel in Oslo, I had a very strange feeling coming from Uncle Bob, when asked “what is the state of unit testing” that was the [...]

The 4 reasons why we DIDN’T choose Oslo

  May 3, 2010
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I have just come back from a really successful and fun kickoff of our partnership program (web-site up soon). But everyone is asking me: Why Oslo? Well the reason is not [...]

Typemock Academy Launch

  April 25, 2010
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It’s been a while since I felt so excited and proud at the same time.  We are three days from the official launch of the Typemock Academy. And even though we've been [...]

The First Rule to Software Craftsmanship

  March 25, 2010
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There has been a lot of noise about software craftsmanship. I think it’s great that people are talking about how software development should become a true craft. So [...]

Goal-driven Development

  March 23, 2010
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Years ago (well not that many years)…when I was working for a large company, I was asked during my midyear review to identify my goals. I remember that my immediate reply [...]

The nightmare called Delegating to Contractors

  March 15, 2010
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The answer to ‘How do you decide what to delegate?’ Should be very easy. If it is not one of your core competencies, give it to someone to whom it is. That way, you focus [...]

Leaving the Echo Chamber

  March 8, 2010
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Unfortunately I can’t tell you about our next product as of yet, but I can promise that you will hear about it very soon. What I can share with you is that following the [...]

Being a Leader is overrated

  February 26, 2010
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Reading a blog post about leadership versus being a boss, I started to think about this matter again. I honestly don’t think that we need any more leaders - we actually need [...]

Typemock Patents- you’re missing the point

  February 24, 2010
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Roy just asked me to blog about a twitter-conversation on our Typemock patents.  It is true, we do have a patent. Its number is: PCT/IL2007/001152  It is natural for [...]

Boss, Stop Delegating Work

  February 21, 2010
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My two year old daughter, Rona, is piecing together a puzzle, and she is really frustrated, as she is trying to join two unrelated pieces together. At one point she nearly [...]