Programming in a clear and comprehensive way is crucial for any software development firm. But the slightly overused term of clean code suffers from a serious vulnerability — the human being behind the screen.…
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Testing & QA
Practical Lessons in Peer Code Review
Millions of years ago, apes descended from the trees, evolved opposable thumbs and—eventually—became human beings. We see mandatory code reviews in a similar light: something that separates human from beast on the rolling grasslands of the software development savanna. Nonetheless, I sometimes hear comments like these from our…
Outgrowing Pivotal Tracker
At Salsita, we've been using Pivotal Tracker as our primary project management tool for over two years now. When choosing a tool, we were looking for something generic enough to use both to present a project overview to clients and to manage developers' day-to-day work. We've tried various solutions, but…
On Using Jasmine in xpcshell Tests.
Jasmine is a JavaScript framework for supporting behaviour-driven development in your projects. Like most JS frameworks, when used for client side development Jasmine expects an environment that meets certain conditions (e.g. it assumes the existence of a global window object). In Salsita, however, we're in the business of creating…