The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Chapter 9Prepare for the Real World
You’ve already learned a lot about writing clean and maintainable Java code, but there’s more to professional software development. Production software has a million reasons to break. And as long as it’s in use, somebody will have to maintain it. User expectations grow and their perception of what they want to do with your software usually changes during usage. After some time in production, everything might have to be changed:
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Your software should accommodate plenty of new features, even when there’s a large backlog of bugs.
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