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This story is an interview with Marc Trabucato, Lead Engine Programmer at Ubisoft Montpellier. Hi Marc, can you describe the project you’re working on at Ubisoft, and your mission there? I’ve worked at Ubisoft for 25 years now. I started as a developer and then became a software architect and trainer. About the context, the...

Code review is one of the most established processes in software engineering. Recent studies indicate that almost 90% of IT companies practice it. The emergence of AI technologies brings since 2022 new tools to improve the code review experience. While its maturity has unveiled some common code reviews best practices, it also emphasized several frustrations...

We just released a new update for Promyze. This release brings major upgrades to automatic suggestions and detection of your best coding practices. 🚀 Semgrep custom rules support to detect your practices Promyze now embeds Semgrep Engine, an open-source static analysis tool, to offer a convenient way to write patterns against abstractions of Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). With Semgrep, you...

In software engineering organizations, there’s this challenge to define, record and spread best coding practices and standards across teams. This brings consistency to source code and improves its maintainability. It also avoids bottlenecks and endless discussions during code reviews on a given coding practice. A common approach to this challenge is building a knowledge base...

In 2023, there should be no debate about the added value of great documentation in software projects. Software engineers should have access to the appropriate knowledge base, depending on the resource type and when they need it. Technical documentation for software developers can take many forms, including evergreen documentation (e.g., procedures for setting up a...

Our platform Promyze is developed in a Client-Server model with a Front side developed in TS and React, while our back-end relies on Node.js. To give some context, the code base started 3 years ago, and we’ve always been a small team with max. 4 developers working on the code simultaneously. We currently have 156...

In our lastest webinar, we talked about the craft at scale. We welcomed Aurélien Rambaux, craftsman coach at ManoMano for 3 years, and Julien Topçu, technical coach at Shodo, a software firm specialized in software craftsmanship and Domain-Driven Design. Aurélien is the only technical coach for 45 teams, about 300 developers. He works with various...

We just released a new update for Promyze. 💡 Introducing Skills A skill is a domain of knowledge that can be linked to existing and new best practices you’ll create with Promyze. Users earn points when they contribute to a best practice associated with a skill. This feature intends to: Highlight your current skills the...

In 1944, the OSS — Office of Strategic Services — of the USA shared with their Europe-based agents a sabotage manual designed to create friction, frustrations, slow-downs, and disturbances in Nazi organizations. 80 years later, it’s interesting that the guidelines look familiar in many large companies. For instance: Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be...