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Self documented development through inch-pebble checkins

Friday, May 01, 2009 Pablo Santos 1 Comments

Developers hate writing documentation. But when you find a weird bug or need to understand why a certain change was done, then you wish you had proper documentation. The problem seems hard to solve. Good comments can help and techniques like diff debugging and proper code review tools can help too. But what every developer does on a regular basis is checking in code to his repository. What if the way in which you check in could help self documenting the code?

Side note: I find the technique I describe here not only good for self documenting changes but also to capture the way in which lead programmers work in such a way it can be used to teach the newcomers...

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Pablo Santos
I'm the CTO and Founder at Códice.
I've been leading Plastic SCM since 2005. My passion is helping teams work better through version control.
I had the opportunity to see teams from many different industries at work while I helped them improving their version control practices.
I really enjoy teaching (I've been a University professor for 6+ years) and sharing my experience in talks and articles.
And I love simple code. You can reach me at @psluaces.

Pablo Santos

1 comment:

  1. UnknownJune 7, 2012 at 2:55 AM

    Sadly, Dr Dobbs flushed this article from it's archive. Any chance you could post the article in full here?

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