Zen and the art of life cycle maintenance
summary
Defines a concrete set of software qualities (correctness, reliability, performance, maintainability, reasonability, applicability) and argues that quality lives in their intersections, not in slogans. Recommends measurable techniques: property-based testing, fuzzing and exploratory manual tests for data/path coverage, TDD plus functional patterns for simplicity, use of optionals/checked constructors and correctness by construction types to avoid undefined behavior, and adoption of tools like static analysis (SonarSource) and std::expected/Boost.Outcome for explicit error handling and targeted measurement before optimizing.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 15:47Exhibit A - The Alignment Trap
- 19:19Code coverage
- 33:31Logic errors/contracts
- 43:01Complex
- 47:49High level code
- 54:59Property-Based Testing
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