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Joshua Bloch has posted on the Official Research Blog about how most binary search and merge sort code is broken and has been for years. The bug is to do with large arrays, and highlights how often programmers accept code that will do “for the examples we have right now” rather than considering whether it’ll […]

Joel Spolsky has written a 12 point test to assess how seriously your organisation takes the software engineering process.

Joel suggests that ideally you should answer “yes” to all 12 points, and that 10 or less points is a worry.

This tutorial aims to teach you how to use the CVSTrac and Trac tools. I assume an administrator has already set one or both of them up for you and that you just need to get comfortable with the tools themselves. The tutorial should also be useful for people trying to decide whether to use one of these systems, but I do not cover how to set them up or administrate them.

Plug for Ronny De Winter’s Software quality blog; which this week is quoting basics of unix philisophy from “The Art of Unix Programming” by Eric Raymond.

We all know that we “should” write tests for each new feature we add to ensure that the feature works correctly. At work we don’t have a formal testing process so I use a trivial shell script to run a series of tests for me.