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I recently represented Intuit, along with 8 other women engineers, to attend Women of Vision(WoV) Awards by Anita Borg Institue (ABI). This was my first WoV event and I was very impressed with the number of companies that were present. I managed to meet engineers from Pure Storage as well...

Another good use of data is to understand behavior in order to identify what we need to correct. If engineers are taking a longer time to understand, fix and add new code to a code base, it could be that the code has low code coverage, poor documentation and many...

I’ll talk about just two pieces of data that can help in decision making in this two part blog. I had to obtain different data for a Quality 6 Pager I’m working on, a narrative on our current state of quality, and our target state in the organization. This concept...

In Part 1, I use “mvn test” results to determine if pre-commit should pass. This leverages many maven plugins that are handy and easy to customize for your requirements. There are 3 checks I added - FindBugs, Checkstyle and JMockit coverage threshold. Let’s get started with FindBugs first. FindBugs plugin...

Git pre-commit hook is simply a script that is placed in every git project under {project_root}/.git/hooks/pre-commit. By default, .git/hooks directory is generated for every git project, containing all sample hooks. To activate it, you just have to remove the extension “.sample”. Here’s picture of my local .git/hooks directory, Now you...