Don't Do This

Here's a little list I compiled on a recent project, some tips to follow, a kinda mantra for simple-stupid software development:

DON’T DO THIS:

- Performance Test without a performance testing environment

- “Ego engineering”

- Use :

o Synchronize

o Static

o Global Variables

o The “coat-hanger”

- Over engineer

- Pre-empt performance optimizations

- Work without requirements

- Change technologies (mid-stream)

- Skip regression testing

- Test – if you are a :

o BA

o Developer

- Do things you aren’t qualified for

- Re-invent the wheel

- Assume anything