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