Difficult-to-understand code is the #1 leading reason that developers write bugs. This change series prevents those bugs by making code easy to understand without making stories take longer.
Organization ROI: Decrease time spent finding, triaging, and fixing bugs by not writing them in the first place.
Engineer ROI: Code becomes obvious, so you don’t need to worry as much while editing it. Be less careful and more successful.
Habit: Read Fragmented Code
Organization ROI: Reduce story cost in code that has a large number of independent parts. Engineer ROI: Gain insights about related code chunks that are scattered across the old system.
Habit: Names Guide Design
Organization ROI: Prevent bugs that arise from differences between CS concepts and domain concepts. Engineer ROI: Use your honest names to guide design for your system.
Habit: Add Domain Concepts
Organization ROI: Prevent bugs that arise from working around missing concepts. Engineer ROI: Use your code to find missing concepts, then use those concepts to organize the code in ways that will be easy to extend.
Habit: Power Combos
Organization ROI: Reduce risk in changing designs. Engineer ROI: Complete extensive design changes as a series of small steps.
