Adding Kevlar® to Your Code
Someone once said that writing the code for a new program takes about 20% of the development time. Testing and debugging that code eats up the remaining 80%. Kinda makes you wonder how programmers manage to screw up the first 20% to such a degree that it takes four times as long to straighten out the mess. I think one reason is because of what I call the spiderweb effect.
The Spiderweb Effect
All too often, a small change over in this corner of a program causes things to go whacky in a totally different area of the program. It’s like pulling on one thread of
