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Open the appFacing a coding crunch? Dive in and share your strategies for prioritizing programming tasks and debugging.
When the pressure’s on, the trick to surviving a coding crunch is all about smart triage. Start by tackling the bugs that impact core functionality—those are your high-priority fire alarms. Break bigger issues into bite-sized, manageable tasks, so you're not overwhelmed by the big picture. And don’t skip debugging logs! They’re your best friend when time is tight. It’s not about doing everything at once, but about doing the right things in the right order.
In most cases, unless decided by the priority of tasks, fixing bugs should take preference over developing a new feature. Bugs affect the application and customer journey, regardless of how small they are. If not fixed in time, they always risk of becoming a larger bug, especially when new things are added on top resulting in mutating the bug to create a much bigger impact. Also, fixing some bugs might need a bit of restructuring to the existing code. If you work on the feature, then you add technical debt to also refactor the code related to the new feature, thereby adding scope to the debugging task.
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