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It’s official: I hate them. Don’t get me wrong, I understand their use and the reasons why potential employers give them out. There’s enough programmers in the world who aren’t really skilled enough ...

Technical assessment is crucial in recruiting programmer candidates. You want to assess programming skills quickly and accurate, but in a friendly way – not to put off valuable candidates. That’s ...

I find myself in the job market once again, and I have a lead that requires me to take a programming test. I've been working full time for a few years and have never had to do this before, so I was ...

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Just like production code, test code needs to be rigorously examined to ensure it’s clean and bug free. In this first half of a two-part article, Klaus Berg makes the case for why good unit tests are ...