On every project I've ever worked on, specs were ephemera, falling out of
date almost immediately despite occasional herculean efforts to keep them
up-to-date.
Personally, the best answer I've found to the spec/code dilemma to be
automated tests, as they evolve along with the code and fail if they
Is "the ground truth" your spec or your code?
Here is an interesting read:
http://shanecelis.github.io/2013/05/20/why-im-trying-literate-programming
Shane started with a co-worker, working from a spec, to create a program.
He eventually found that only he could make changes because only he
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