Why Refactoring Should Be Done In-Flow, Not As Backlog Stories
TL;DR Treating refactoring as standalone backlog stories is usually ineffective and hard to justify to stakeholders. Instead, incrementally clean the…
Refactoring — Why It Shouldn’t Be Put on the Backlog as a Story
TL;DR The author argues against treating refactoring as backlog work or a standalone story. Instead, teams should incrementally clean code…
Reconsidering Comments: When ‘What’ Explanations Belong in Code
TL;DR A programmer argues that comments which state 'what' code is doing can be appropriate alongside explanatory 'why' comments. The…
Maybe Comments Should Explain ‘What’ — Rethinking Comments in Code
TL;DR A blog post challenges the common rule that comments should only explain why, arguing there are situations where comments…