How To Handle Legacy Code The Correct and Career Rewarding Way
Include the inspect-and-adapt cycle to get the aha-effect
Let’s talk about your motivation as a developer regarding maintenance and bug-fixing tasks. Honestly, it’s not the most exciting work, and these tasks have a bit of a bad rep. Be sure these tasks reward you pretty darn great.
Here’s the deal: Avoiding these tasks can seriously limit your growth as a developer. Sure, at first, they might seem like a time-sucking annoyance.
But from what I’ve seen, they’re not just worth the time and effort, they actually boost your learning in software development and level up your problem-solving skills.
In the world of agile development, maintenance is super important. If you ignore it, you’re not just putting the future of your project in jeopardy, but you’re also dragging down your colleagues' morale.
As if you are sawing off the branch you are sitting on.
Why It Has Such a Bad Reputation
What should I care about this garbage code? That was done by someone else!
I’d rather do the cool new features.
That’s how it often sounds, or something similar when maintaining old software pieces…
