Development Flags

Sometimes you decicide to implement quick and dirty hacks to allow for early testing of code segments under development. Or your specifications require you to provide certain functions and you initially decide to simply implement empty wrapper functions until you find some more time to actually write the real thing. If you work on bigger source code distributions it is easily forgotten that one of these improvised code segments exists. We therefore recommend that you always flag code if it has not yet been implemented, finished or fully tested.

• XXX:INCOMPLETE
• XXX:FIXME
• XXX:NOTIMPLEMENTED

At any point in time you can then simply search for all occurences of XXX in your source code and locate all the segments that still need fixing.