To the customer, it does not matter weather it is one line of code, or one hundred lines of code. There is no such thing as a 5 minute to fix bug.ħ) I only have to change one line of code to fix the bug. By the time you have load the development environment, identified the bug, fixed, tested and rolled out the change to production, it will be much longer that 5 minutes. If you have a single line of code to write, it is not complete, and not ready for testing.Ħ) It is a small bug – it will only take 5 minutes to fix. The development is not complete until you have finished writing all of the code. Error-handling is part of the basic design of a system, not something you slap on at the end when you have time.ĥ) The programme is complete – but I just need to quickly finish off…. So, if you have not got time to comment your code while you are writing it, how are you going to have the time at the end? Besides, if it is a large project with a long development time, are you going to remember what some of the earlier written (uncommented) code does!Ĥ) I’ll add the error handing at the end.
Lies of p developers software#
The end of any development cycle is always chaotic, that is a simple fact of software engineering. Now get it to work everywhere else.ģ) I’ll comment the code at the end. Remember that you wrote it on your machine, so of course it works on your machine. If my code works and does not require any enhancements, leave it alone, no matter how different to yours it is.Ģ) It works on my machine…well, if it works on your machine and not mine, then clearly it is not a robust application, or your installation procedure does not work very well. So, unless your code is really badly written, my code is no better than yours, it is simply different to yours.
![lies of p developers lies of p developers](https://www.levinperconti.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/L_P_UMBILICAL-CORD-INFOGRAPHIC-4-1153x1536.jpg)
![lies of p developers lies of p developers](https://assets.phenompeople.com/CareerConnectResources/prod/TFSCGLOBAL/images/JobsOGfr-1618599132413.jpg)
Writing code is similar, different software engineers have different coding styles. Artists and song-writers have different styles of painting or song writing. Writing code is very much like writing a song or painting a picture.