Michael Feathers is the Founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design. Over the years, Michael has spent a great deal of time helping teams after design over time in code bases. Michael is also the author of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code.
As developers we spend a lot of time dealing with error cases. We write code to handle them or leverage our type systems prevent them. These are fine strategies, but they don't cut to the core question. Why do the error cases exist at all? Can we get right of them? In this keynote, Michael Feathers will explore the idea that error cases are often missed design opportunities.