Know How Your Brain Deceives You
If you’ve worked in the software industry for some time, you’re probably all too familiar with the following scenario. You are working on a product in which you or your company has invested money. This product will need to improve as users demand new features.
At first, the changes are small. For example, you tweak the FuelInjector algorithm. As you do, you realize that the Engine abstraction depends on details of the FuelInjector algorithm, so you modify the Engine implementation, too. But before you can ship the code, you discover by accident that the logging tool still shows the old values. You need to change the Diagnostics module, too. Phew—you almost missed that one.
If you had run a hotspot analysis on ...
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