This is the first entry, hopefully out of many, the first step for on a long journey to become a better software developer, I have some experience, I’m not a rookie, but I want to keep improving my skills, to deal with my weaknesses and achieve developer’s haven (if it exists ;-)

Ok then, let start, what did I do today?

I spent the whole day fixing one small bug, NullPointerException, but to fix it, I also had to change the logic for some other parts of the application. Fortunately,  we had some unit tests (not as many as it should be), but at least one of them was falling after my change.  To correct it I had to spent the rest of the day on that. Right now, when a change is affecting more then one classes, I always start all the tests. It takes 30 minutes to finish them, but still less then time spent on solving bugs introduced by the change. I had to change many things and also learned something new about the application, I understand it better now. So, anyway, I will try to spend some time in the future to improve tests performance ;-)

After all I was able to commit the change to the repository which didn’t break anything and that was a success!