The Hidden Cost of Software Automation

<p>“Anything that you do more than twice has to be automated.” That sounds like a great quote. But, be careful. Automation is costlier than just the process of automating it.</p> <p>This is speaking from a real case I’m sharing below.</p> <h1>A Real Case Story</h1> <p>There was a piece of code in our early days of mobile development that was relatively repetitive. It’s creating an SQL table and a set of functions such as insert, update, delete, etc., and connecting to a data model for the table.</p> <p>Every time a table is created, one must go through creating and duplicating the table contents and their SQL commands function.</p> <h2>Repetitive process identified</h2> <p>As we’re starting development, more requests are coming in for new data to be stored, and hence likely to have more new tables and SQL to program.</p> <p><a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/the-hidden-cost-of-software-automation-fa238bfb473b">Read More</a></p>