Plastic SCM blog: Context Switching

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012 Amalia branching 0 Comments

Context switching is considered harmful. No matter who is talking about it, it is clear that forcing people to change from one task to another is an extra overhead that we all face during development. A human brain is not a CPU. For developers(for humans in general) a Context Switch can be extraordinary hard (and expensive).

Unfortunately, in a a software development environment there are external events that do their best to prevent the developer from maintaining this high concentration level. Changing from one task to another due to a more urgent problem, a client request or an important bug seems to be unavoidable. If you are a programmer working on some code and you are forced to change to something else, how would you proceed?

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