time-wasters

What are the biggest potential time wasters in development?

Actually I am interested in hearing others experience on this subject: Time wasters. By saying that, I mean the things that are a trap to fall into during the development phase and let us developers lose a ridiculous amount of time - which ultimately does not deliver any useful output in the end. Here are some examples of things I have...

Why should I bother with unit testing if I can just use integration tests?

Ok, I know I am going out on a limb making a statement like that, so my question is for everyone to convince me I am wrong. Take this scenario: I have method A, which calls method B, and they are in different layers. So I unit test B, which delivers null as a result. So I test that null is returned, and the unit test passes. Nice. The...

Netbeans lack of SVN Add

I've been driving myself crazy over the past few days over this one. We've just finished setting up a Hudson Continuous-Integration server. So it runs a build script each and every commit to validate the commit. The issue is that it validates that all the files in the repo have both the svn:keywords = "Id" and svn:eol-style = "LF" pro...