Chapter 10 – Understanding What You’re Getting

Explains how to estimate the quality of the app that you are getting and the code that is being written for it.

• Living Within Your Means
• The Ticking Clock
  • More Meetings Are Not the Answer
  • It’s About the Work
• Justifying Effort for your Project Size
• Get the Code, Even if There’s Nothing to See in the UI
• Comments in Source Control
• Comments in Code
• Build and Run the App Yourself
• Third-Party Libraries
• Source Code Project Organization
• Automated Test Coverage
• Detecting Plagiarism
• Compiler Warnings
• Duplicated Code
• Commented Out Code
• Magic Numbers
• Huge Combinatorial Complexity
• Useless, Ambiguous, or Confusing Naming
• The “UI Thread” or “Main Thread”
• Wrapping Up