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throw1234651234 on July 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Code only says what it does

Give me an example, and I will write you code documenting the business context.

Jtsummers on July 6, 2020 [–]

And then what? You throw away the example specification so that the why only continues on in the code?

And after 10 years of maintenance, the code has drifted with each iteration so that the why is no longer clear in the code.

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