Presentations

Core and other Guidelines

From experience in multiple projects with different customer and team constellations, I present a choice of guidelines found in the wild. These lead to some observations about what we want in a useful set of guidelines. Abstract Slides

This talk was held:

• At the MeetingC++ conference on November 16th 2024 in Berlin, Germany
• At the NDC TechTown conference on September 11th 2024 in Kongsberg, Norway
• At the C++ On Sea conference on July 5th 2024 in Folkestone, UK

Properties of Unit Tests

What are the desired properties of unit tests to make them most useful? This talk goes through the most common use cases for unit tests and deducts those desired properties from them. Abstract Slides

The talk was held:

• At the C++ On Sea conference on July 5th 2024 in Folkestone, UK
• At the NDC TechTown conference on August 31st 2022 in Kongsberg, Norway
• At the MeetingC++ conference on November 19th 2022 in Berlin, Germany

Identifying Common Code Smells

I talk about what code smells are and show eight of the most common language agnostic and C++ specific code smells, as well as how to fix them. Each smell is shown using examples from open source code bases. Slides

The talk was held on several occasions:

• At the MeetingC++ conference on November 15th 2019 in Berlin, Germany (different title, video)
• At the C++ On Sea conference on July 6th 2022 in Folkestone, UK (video)
• At the NDC TechTown conference on September 1st 2022 in Kongsberg, Norway

Code Reviews - Why, What, and How

Collected best practices about how to do code reviews and what to review, as well as some background why code reviews are a useful tool. (Slides)

This material was held as:

• a presentation at Meeting C++ 2017 November 11th 2017 in Berlin, Germany
• an interactive session (not recorded) at ACCU 2018 April 14th 2018 in Bristol, UK
• a presentation at the C++ User Group June 19th 2018 in Hamburg, Germany
• a presentation at the Oslo C++ User Group August 30th 2022 in Kongsberg, Norway

Learning and Teaching Modern C++

Some observations about what "Modern C++" might be, what challenges there are in teaching it and a comparison of the different sources we have for learning it. The talk was held on several occasions in slightly different versions:

• At the MeetingC++ conference on November 18th 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (video)
• At the ACCU 2017 conference on April 28th 2017 in Bristol, UK. (video)
• At the C++ User Group January 16th 2019 in Hamburg, Germany
• At the C++ On Sea conference on February 5th 2019 in Folkestone, UK. (video)

(Slides 2016/17) (Slides 2019)

[Archived] Bringing Clean Code to Large Scale Legacy C++ Applications

A talk about the experiences I gathered in several large and old enterprise C++ code bases. (Slides)

The talk was held on several occasions:

• At the Advanced Developers C++ Conference April 26th 2016 in Erding, Germany
• At the Clean Code Days June 3rd 2016 in Munich, Germany
• At the C++ User Group July 11th 2016 in Hannover, Germany
• At the C++ User Group July 13th 2016 in Hamburg, Germany
• At the MeetingC++ conference on November 15th 2018 in Berlin, Germany (video)
• At the ACCU 2019 conference on April 13th 2019 in Bristol, UK. (video)

I also transcribed the talk to a series of blog posts since there are no recordings:

1. Clean up Large C++ Legacy Applications
2. Large C++ Legacy Applications: Planned Refactoring
3. Large Legacy Applications: Tests and Modularization

[Archived] Pillars of Modern C++

A talk about what makes the basis for a Modern C++ code style. (Slides) Held at:

• Zühlke ZDays 2018 (internal conference) September 7th 2018 in Stuttgart, Germany