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Software engineering has its own slang terms only heard in the industry. Business Insider polled three IT experts with computer and software engineering experience and/or education who collectively bring two decades of industry experience for a list of phrases newbies should familiarize themselves with before they join the industry.
Fatima's list includes rubber duck and bikeshedding as well, and she added these three industry slang terms and definitions:Code smell is poorly written or structured code that may contain bugs or inefficiencies.Getting sidetracked by unrelated tasks before addressing the original problem is also known as yak shaving.Older, often outdated, software that requires maintenance and lacks proper documentation is called legacy code.
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