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Where does refactoring belong in GitFlow branch naming model?

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Does it make sense to define an interface if I already have an abstract class?

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Code coverage highlights unused methods - what should I do?

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How to affect priorities to bugs to developers and treat them accordingly?

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Should "No Results" be an error in a RESTful response?

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Inverting an IF statement

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Why would you not use the 'using' directive in C#?

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Exception vs empty result set when the inputs are technically valid, but unsatisfiable

Thousands of errors!

How to find positive things in a code review?

Does splitting a potentially monolithic application into several smaller ones help prevent bugs?

Should we design our code from the beginning to enable unit testing?

How and why did modern web application frameworks evolve to decouple URL routes from the file system?

Where does refactoring belong in GitFlow branch naming model?

How to coordinate developers time between two different projects in Scrum?

How to store a fixed length array in a database

Mocking introduces handling in production code

SQL sanitizing in code with no user input

What is the point of repeatedly executing the same test?

What's a universal way to store a geographical address/location in a database?

Methodology: Writing unit tests for another developer

REST API Design: Multiple calls vs. single call to the API

Does it make sense to define an interface if I already have an abstract class?

Why not use SQL instead of GraphQL?

What benefit do we get by thinking of objects as "sending messages to each other"?

Code coverage highlights unused methods - what should I do?

Is our outsourced software vendor "Agile" or do they just not want to plan things?

What is "Soft Coding", really?

How to justify using await instead of .Result() or .Wait() in .NET Core?

How to affect priorities to bugs to developers and treat them accordingly?

How do I edit a chain of if-else if statements to adhere to Uncle Bob's Clean Code principles?

Is it an anti-pattern if a class property creates and returns a new instance of a class?

On a once a day user action: 24 Hours Reset vs. Midnight Reset

Additional line in block vs additional parameter in Clean Code

Should "No Results" be an error in a RESTful response?

Inverting an IF statement

Why would you not use the 'using' directive in C#?