“Healthy code is not the outcome of review or testing, it is from doing simple things diligently.” What is healthy and what are habits that we embrace to stay healthy? If we correlate this to code what does this mean, is what this pictorial article “Seven habits to healthy code” is about.
Healthy code is not about just working correctly. It is about future-proofing, maintainability, adaptability, reusability and so on. As in real life where face shines when you are in the pink of health, beautiful code also shines!
I have been a great fan of Dr Goldratt having read all this books, my favourite being his first book “The Goal”. This book “Necessary but not Sufficient” is written as a “business novel” and shows the fictional application of the Theory of Constraints to Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and operations software and organizations using that software.