Working As A Software Engineer

Chris Vesters

Chris Vesters

Ever since I graduated as a Master in Computer Science, I started working in the software engineering industry. Over the course of my career I have done many different projects.

Organizing Test Data

May 5, 20243 min read

One of the most annoying things I faced in the past was maintaining test data. Typically what I would do was write my test data in the test itself and...

Organizing Test Data

Trying Gradle

Apr 21, 20244 min read

I was very interested to try out Gradle and see how it compares to Maven. I knew that both tools are very similar but Gradle is more flexible and has...

Trying Gradle

To Estimate Or Not To Estimate

Apr 7, 20244 min read

In the previous blog post I already gave you my opinion about estimations. In that blog post I discussed the idea of whether or not you should...

To Estimate Or Not To Estimate

Why Estimate?

Mar 24, 20243 min read

In a previous blog post I discussed the different options to estimate a ticket and why I still prefer using story points. It is evident that...

Why Estimate?

Why Story Points?

Mar 10, 20246 min read

In an agile way of working we have gotten used to estimating work using story points. Not everyone finds this useful and many discussions have been...

Why Story Points?

Forgetting About Object Orientation

Feb 25, 20243 min read

With the arrival of dependency injection and web services, it seems that we have started to focus more on services and how they can work together...

Forgetting About Object Orientation