Is Software A Craft? Software Is A Craft!¶

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09:00-09:15 Introductory Words ¶

This is not a tech seminar, but a psycho-social seminar
Craftsmanship
- Do we have rules?
- Dont’s?
- Should we?
How about that scenario (Robert Martin brings it during one of his talks) …
- Someone makes a dumb mistake and software kills 10000 people
- Politics will jump in want answers
- If we do not have one, they will regulate
- Do we want this?
- Ethics maybe? Do we have ethics?

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This particular electrical installation does not seem to adhere to any rule.

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It does not solve an immediate problem. There are software systems that look like this, though.

Survey: who has had a project in their life that got out of control? Why?

09:15-10:00 Software Engineering: A Discipline? (What Have We Established?)¶

What’s There? What Have We Accomplished?

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break ¶

10:15-11:00 Establishing “The Project” (Live Hacking, Slides)¶

In a live-hacking session, establish the initial project state.

Live Hacking Before (Formal) Unit Testing

11:00-12:00 Enter Unit Testing Frameworks ¶

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Live Hacking: Switch To googletest

12:00-13:00 Lunch Break ¶

13:00-14:00 Cornerstones From The “Clean Code” Book ¶

Clean Code: Messages From The Book

14:00-14:45 Keeping Code Clean In The Small ¶

14:45-15:00 Coffee Break ¶

15:00-23:59 “Extreme Programming” Session ¶

Using Test Driven Development, hack deliciously, fearlessly cleaning up the code base!

See Backlog: What Needs To Change, Or We Will All Die for more.