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Automate the Problems Away

Automate the Problems Away

Understand the usefulness of automation to reduce tedium, give repeatable results, and eliminate errors in your program.

The program we build must be automated in any industry project, so we just need to type make or click a button. However, the tools used for compiling source code are generic automation tools; they can be used for a lot more than running compilers. Like many of the topics we’ve discussed, automation is also a productivity multiplier. We should use it well, and the time invested upfront multiplies our effort later.

There’s a famous de-motivational poster that says, “If a pretty poster and a ...