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title: Make it work, then make it good
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date: 2024-08-31
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permalink: daily/2024/08/31/make-it-work-then-make-it-good
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tags:
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- software-development
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- automated-testing
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- test-driven-development
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- clean-code
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- drupal-planet
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cta: d7eol
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The main objective when writing software is to make it work.
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Your first objective when writing software is to make it work by - any means necessary.
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If you're doing test-driven development, you want to get a failing test to pass as quickly as possible.
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You want to get your application into a working state, whether that's hard-coding some values, focusing on the happy path implementation, holding off on implementing design patterns, or something else - you just want the code to work, even if it's a "bad" solution.
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Once it's working, you can refactor it into a good solution.
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