1) How do y'all make people aware what reusable routines exist?
2) How do folk find what a reusable routine does, short of reading the code?
Many years ago, IT shops used a Standards Manual to identify various
standards/techniques/reusable code(routines)/naming conventions/locations of
routines/interface requirements/etc.
As a contractor or new employ, one of the first things you did on a new
project was review the Standards Manual and discuss any project specific
requirements.
The concept of using a standards manual may have gone out the window these
days.
It can be a very time consuming exercise, even though worthwhile, expediency
seems to dictate whether appropriate documentation is produced and
maintained in many shops.
Norm Dennis
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Reusable code is a great concept, but unless you know a routine exists and
what it does you can't use it.
We're a small shop and we have some reusable service programs and commands.
The few heavily used commands are easy to remember, but folk forget about
the rest. (I just bumped into one today that *I* created a year ago and had
completely forgotten about.)
Have any of you found good answers to either of these questions for a shop
with 5 or more developers?
1) How do y'all make people aware what reusable routines exist?
2) How do folk find what a reusable routine does, short of reading the code?
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