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    "modern"? Strip that "agile" buzzword from your list and I can see only things with an age of > 20 years. Commented May 19, 2015 at 12:58
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    Perhaps "modern" in the sense that widespread adoption of them is modern, not the ideas' geneses, then? I'm not an expert on this subject either, this is just my impression. Commented May 19, 2015 at 13:01
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    I assure, you, unit testing, logging, database normalization, coding style guides, code inspections (=reviews) are all older than 30 years. The term "refactoring" is at least 15 years old (Fowler wrote his book in 2000). And having no formal documentation or written requirements is not "a modern technique", it is IMHO not even a "technique". Commented May 19, 2015 at 13:12
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    @DocBrown admit it, you just sent Marty back in time to create all these things before making your comment. Commented May 19, 2015 at 16:48
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    I'm more concerned that his college isn't teaching those things up front - I've been out of school 15+ years and most of those things were covered pretty early on. (Minus the buzzwords, of course). Commented May 19, 2015 at 17:12