I’m very much looking forward to the Connect’15 conference which takes place in Basel this week. The size of the conference was just right for me in the previous years, providing ample opportunity to meet AEM and Sling community members without being overwhelmed by the crowds, and this year’s program looks great!
The title of my talk is “Thoughts on software quality — and how does Apache Sling look?” I’ll present my view of the various axes on which one can measure software quality — obvious things like robustness, performance, flexibility and also less frequently discussed aspects like transparency, testability, relentless focus and a few other things.
Although software engineers will (hopefully) agree that quality is important, how one measures quality can vary greatly, so it is useful to discuss that. We’ll use Apache Sling as our guinea pig for our quality evaluation, to help describe the quality axes on a concrete basis.
This talk should help software developers and designers get a fresh view on quality, with pointers to how to improve it. If people walk out of my talk with more questions than answers I’ll be happy as well — quality is one of those ongoing quests in our journey towards perfect software, a quest in which we need to constantly adapt to changing needs and tools.
Looking at the program this might be one of the most “philosophical” talks of the conference, and I’m very happy that the organisers chose to schedule it — reflecting on how to improve our craft is particularly important when working on long-lived systems like the ones that we build with AEM and Apache Sling.
See you in Basel!
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