10 things you forgot to do to your code
You’ve pushed the code through all of the tests and they came back green. The continuous integration pipeline ran all of the way through. All of the check boxes on the feature list are checked. All of the Post-it notes have moved to the completed part of the wall. Phew.
It’s tempting to call the code finished and head off on vacation. You’ve earned it. The team has earned it. Let the code do its thing for a bit. Isn’t that the whole reason we wrote it? To throw it over the wall where it could just hum along and do its thing?
Alas, the days of being complacent and sitting still are over. Nothing is ever finished these days. Just because you’ve squeezed out the bugs and delivered a working program doesn’t mean that you should relax. There are dozens of things you can still do to improve your code. Some are the mark of the good citizen who cleans up for the next team to come along. Some are opportunities for growth and capturing new markets. Some are the start of a new journey.
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