This weeks tip ties with the previous one: Drawing the Line, take one step at a time. Just like a bricklayer places one brick at a time to build a wall, you need to take on one code quality step at a time. Let’s continue with the previous example, you have 10000 code quality issues, and your goal is to get them all resolved. You do not try to tackle all of them at once, as you will quickly find yourself overwhelmed. Instead, you define a small step that will lead you to your goal and complete that. One such small goal would be to remove 1% of the warnings, which would be 10. 10 is a small number that one can handle and will move you closer to your goal.

So with your line drawn and your stepping stone goal in place, you are on your way to making your code clean.


Categories: Code Quality