The Other Half of Coding
~ 300 pages
· ~ 300 pages
The Other Half of Coding shows why software decays over time and how it can be prevented.
Software becomes decrepit even when it seems like it shouldn’t. Even when a team is engaged in all the right practices, it seems like pressure and time is all it takes for a system to eventually become unmaintainable.
Why would that be?
The fundamental problem is inattention to how code is changed.
So much effort is put into figuring out how code works today and what it should be like after a change that we forget about the journey from A to B.
In The Other Half of Coding, Max Guernsey, III explores this problem, identifies its roots, and provides a system for resolving it.