The Art of Software Gardening

The Art of Software Gardening

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1. The Art of Software Gardening
2. I am here because I love Swedish coffee Hello! I am Patroklos Papapetrou I am here because I love Swedish coffee and I am passionate about clean code and software gardening You can find me at @ppapapetrou76
3. 97 of conferences % attendees don't care about speakers bio
4. Art VS Software VS Gardening How I came up with this topic? 1
5. “ You are not a Software Engineer. You do not build skyscrapers. You do not build bridges. You grow gardens. You are a Software Gardener. Chris Aithcison, 2011 http://www.chrisaitchison.com/2011/05/03/you-are-not-a-software-engineer/
6. Software engineer is the most failed ever job title #EpicFail
7. Art VS Software VS Gardening
8. Art VS Software VS Gardening So what are we? ◦ Artists? ◦ Engineers? ◦ Gardeners? ◦ None of them? ◦ All of them?
9. Writing software is about a lot more than slinging code
10. Writing software is about a lot more than slinging code In the beginning of my career I had only one goal : Be the fastest code monkey
11. Writing software is about a lot more than slinging code Suddenly my whole world collapsed when a 'senior' developer looked at my code
12. What was wrong with me? I didn't care about ◦ the code I was putting to the system ◦ who will maintain it in the future ◦ who will use it ◦ Its behavior when new code would be added.
13. What about Agile? Is software gardening something else? 2
14. Agile principles vs Software Gardening A software gardener ◦ Easier adopts / follows agile practices ◦ Easier changes his mindset ◦ Moves agility to a higher level
15. Agile principles vs Software Gardening You can be a brilliant software gardener while using waterfall or other monolithic process
16. What about Software Craftsmanship? Yet another new fancy term / buzz word? 3
17. Craftsmanship vs Gardening ◦ Craft is about creating objects ◦ Better compare code to flowers and software systems to gardens
18. What is software gardening 4
19. “ Software gardening is not a practice, an attitude, a skill or a special knowledge. It’s all of them plus the you have for software development. And this you should show it continuously, day by day, every moment in every single line of code you write. Patroklos Papapetrou, 2014 http://softwaregarden.io
20. Why this analogy? ◦ Code as flowers, systems as gardens ◦ You don’t just plant some flower seeds today and expect to see them blossom the next day ◦
21. Why this analogy? ◦ Deliver a bug-free (no-disease), fully- covered by tests (protected by future diseases), and well-designed (correctly irritated) feature (flower)
22. Treat code as it's the last flower your wife/husband/boyf riend/girlfriend will ever smell
23. Why this analogy? ◦ Gardeners just uproot anything that’s blocking their design or doesn’t fit in the garden. Do the same with your code! ◦ Throw away any code that’s not needed (withered flowers) any more or is causing too much troubles (unwanted plants).
24. Why this analogy? ◦ Be ready to adapt on unwanted external environment changes (rain/wind/cold)
25. Why this analogy? ◦ Or remove any internal environment roadblocks (warms and other bugs)
26. What do I need to become a software gardener? 5
27. What it takes to become a software gardener Skills
28. The Skills Soft Patience (Do not over-irritate) No multi-tasking (one flower at a time) Proactive / adapt to changes (snow/wind/bugs) Technical Write clean code (colorful flowers) Unit testing (fragrant gardens) Be polyglot (pick the right soil, fertilizer)
29. The Skills Technical Soft Ideal Software Gardener
30. What it takes to become a software gardener
31. The Attitude ◦ Commitment – Love what you do ◦ Share knowledge ◦ Be a mentor ◦ Accept criticism ◦ Self-learner
32. What it takes to become a software gardener
33. The practices ◦ TDD ◦ Code reviews ◦ Automate-automate-automate ◦ Re-factoring ◦ Boy-scout approach
34. What it takes to become a software gardener
35. Don't forget! Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, you are now welcome to ”Göteborg 1” for a lovely lunch that is sponsored by
36. Thanks! ANY QUESTIONS? You can find me at @ppapapetrou76 Http://softwaregarden.io https://leanpub.com/art_software_gardening Rate this presentation at : https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CRQJZ5R