Rafael dos Santos Miguel Filho
The Pragmatic Engineer

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The Pragmatic Engineer

This is a series of articles about the main principles, design patterns, architectures, programming languages, and best practices surrounding the world of software development!

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Discover the Benefits of Using the Smart and Presentation Components Pattern in Your Angular App

Mar 17, 202387 views

A good component finds a balance of constraints while remaining reusable and integrating cleanly with the rest of our application · The concept of smart...

Discover the Benefits of Using the Smart and Presentation Components Pattern in Your Angular App

Keeping Tests Valuable: Using Branching Coverage to Improve Software Quality

Mar 13, 2023626 views

Branch coverage provides valuable insight into areas of your code that require the most attention and testing. · There are topics about tests that can...

Keeping Tests Valuable: Using Branching Coverage to Improve Software Quality

Keeping Tests Valuable: Avoid Problems In The Act Blocks

Mar 5, 202396 views

Unit testing is like a microscope that allows you to examine the smallest details of your code · The Arrange-Act-Assert (A-A-A) convention is widely used...

Keeping Tests Valuable: Avoid Problems In The Act Blocks

Taking Control of Software Entropy: How Unit Testing Can Make the Difference?

Feb 27, 202398 views

Software entropy is the tendency of software to degrade over time as it is modified. - Ivar Jacobson · Yes, that topic again. After all, we all know that...

Taking Control of Software Entropy: How Unit Testing Can Make the Difference?

Keeping tests valuable: Avoiding Leaking Domain Knowledge to Tests

Feb 22, 2023661 views

Leaking domain knowledge for testing may not seem harmful at first, but with increasing complexity it becomes a big problem! · One of the key principles...

Keeping tests valuable: Avoiding Leaking Domain Knowledge to Tests

Keeping tests valuable: Are the code coverage metrics reliable?

Feb 13, 2023569 views

When a metric becomes a goal, it stops being a good metric. - Charles Goodhart · Over the years, the quality of the code base and the quality and...

Keeping tests valuable: Are the code coverage metrics reliable?