Picture the scenario: You are staring at the computer screen and scanning the lines of code that fill it. You scratch your head and think: Why?
You debug the code, step-by-step and see a method call that sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s doing an out of process call to another subsystem before the code has completed its job in this method.
Why is that out of process call made there? There’s no documentation explaining why. Moving it to the end of the method makes more sense, but then everything breaks. WHY?
As a software developer, you might have experienced situations like this. You’re looking to fix a bug or extend a feature and you stumble over code that just doesn’t make sense.
You can see what it’s doing, even understand how it’s works, but you just can’t understand why.
In this post I’ll show you why making the extra effort to capture the intent of the code is so important. Continue Reading
