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What does it mean by atomic commit for a versioning system?

svn versioning cvs

sep 5 at 16:42 gnat 12.3k

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Why is test driven development missing from Joel's Test?

programming-practices testing code-quality tdd

mar 6 at 16:34 Ross Patterson 3,559

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Please explain the statement that the function an+b belongs to O(n^2) and and Θ(n)?

algorithms big-o big-theta

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What can go wrong if the Liskov substitution principle is violated?

design design-patterns object-oriented object-oriented-design solid

oct 24 at 15:28 Giorgio 6,893

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What is Continous Integration (CI) and how is it useful?

agile continuous-integration jenkins

sep 5 at 12:43 Nikolay Fominyh 896

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Should java developers know about garbage collection algorithms?

java interview garbage-collection

jul 31 at 16:42 Michael Kohne 5,626

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What does it mean by expected running time and average runnnig time of an algorithm?

algorithms terminology performance complexity

aug 5 at 13:31 Alex ten Brink 913

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What is the principle of least astonishment?

design design-patterns object-oriented

feb 18 at 23:24 MichaelT 8,156

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Conceptually what does it mean when it is said that each thread gets its own stack?

java multithreading concurrency stack

jul 31 at 7:47 Loki Astari 7,953

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Why is semantic markup given more weight for search engines?

html html5 semantics seo markup

sep 28 at 8:13 Yannis Rizos♦ 22.8k

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How does strengthening of pre conditions and weakening of post conditions violate Liskov Substitution principle?

object-oriented inheritance abstraction

feb 19 at 18:58 Joel Etherton 8,674

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Understanding comparison using Big O notation

algorithms linked-list

jul 21 at 18:20 Martijn Verburg 17.7k

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Is there a modern replacement for a mutation testing tool like Jester for Java?

java unit-testing code-quality tdd

mar 9 at 20:42 henry 156

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Explanation of Object-parameter-coupling as mentioned in Code Complete book

design object-oriented-design dependency-injection coupling code-complete

mar 2 at 15:41 Yannis Rizos♦ 22.8k

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What are the pros and cons of Inter process communication done via sockets vs shared memory?

language-agnostic debugging memory sockets process

jan 12 at 22:22 David Hammen 2,921

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What is meant by namespaced content and what advantages does it have?

html html5 namespace xhtml

oct 29 at 12:25 Michael Borgwardt 20.9k

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Do I need to learn python first to understand the part 2 of the book Test Driven development?

java python unit-testing tdd unit

mar 10 at 11:41 Gerry King 132

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How does a browser determine that a script has run for too long? [closed]

web-development javascript browser web-browser

nov 6 at 20:22 Wladimir Palant 220

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What is meant by sandboxing?

javascript web-applications html html5 browser

oct 30 at 14:15 Yannis Rizos♦ 22.8k

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Explanation of satellite data from a programmers perspective

java algorithms terminology concepts pointers

aug 9 at 15:47 Thomas Owens♦ 33.9k

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What problems can happen if an XML file is not backed by a schema?

xml schema

apr 18 at 21:21 jiggy 930

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What does the “4” in LCOM4 mean?

object-oriented code-quality code-smell code-metrics

mar 20 at 17:58 Robert Harvey 47k

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Strategies for using a code metric evaluation tool

development-process code-quality builds static-analysis code-metrics

mar 20 at 16:08 Martin 294

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Understanding high cohesion principle for methods in object oriented design

object-oriented code-quality object-oriented-design methods

mar 3 at 17:06 ipaul 366

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Why is an interface in Java not allowed to have state? [closed]

java design language-design

jan 27 at 16:49 mh01 841

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What does it mean when we say that some function is polynomially bigger/smaller than some other function?

algorithms complexity

jul 30 at 18:30 phant0m 1,742

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Why does the code auditing tools like FindBugs require a compile step to work properly?

tools code-reviews static-analysis intellij performance-tools

jul 26 at 17:06 Thomas Owens♦ 33.9k

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JUnitEE vs JUnit

java unit-testing java-ee junit

mar 22 at 13:16 Michael Borgwardt 20.9k

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Why sequential cohesion for operations in a method is not a good idea?

design object-oriented object-oriented-design methods code-complete

mar 3 at 18:09 Steve314 5,571

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Analogy of a class being a cookie cutter and objects being cookies

object-oriented class object code-complete

mar 2 at 16:34 Kilian Foth 14k

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