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Coding with AI For Dummies
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Coding with AI For Dummies

by Chris Minnick
March 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
7h 43m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 11

Maintaining Your Code

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Sweeping through the types of maintenance

Bullet Using AI tools for code maintenance

Bullet Enhancing code quality

Software is never finished. Once you've gone through the processes of planning, coding, testing, documenting, and deploying an application, the process of maintenance begins. Maintenance is a large part of the job of a software developer. In one study conducted by Stripe, developers reported spending almost half of their day doing maintenance (https://stripe.com/files/reports/the-developer-coefficient.pdf).

Maintenance is not a popular task, either. A survey conducted by Rollbar (www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210216005484/en/Rollbar-Research-Shows-That-Traditional-Error-Monitoring-Is-Missing-the-Mark) found that 21 percent of developers would rather go to the dentist than fix errors.

In this chapter, you learn what is involved in software maintenance and how AI tools can help to make the process less time consuming and (I hope) more enjoyable.

Knowing the Four Types of Maintenance

The predictable result of not performing routine maintenance on your car is that things will start to degrade until you have a major problem. The predictable ...

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