7 sins of software development
Summary
Good software architecture involves planning ahead to minimize the amount of data that’s stored. Effective software developers and their managers know that testing is a constant challenge and just as much a part of the job as writing recursive code or designing an elegant data structure. Many teams bring in quality assurance testers who watch for the kinds of mistakes that programmers make. This attention to testing is essential when the use cases get so complicated that it’s hard for any single human to think of all the variations and write clean code that anticipates them all. They’re going to be the ones using the code in the future, so spending time discussing the project and learning their needs will save plenty of frustration afterwards.