Conscientious-Code

Despite best efforts, we will all at some point or another come across “stars-align” logic. It usually sits at the intersection of business logic and technical requirements (a smell of it’s own) and looks a little something like this:

if (model.SomeProperty.HasValue
    && model.OtherProperty > config.MinimumPermitted
    && user.HasPermission
    && (!model.RequiresFeatureX || featureX.IsEnabled))
{
    // Preferred Behaviour
}
else
{
    // Plan B
}

We’re already in a bad place here and the ideal solution is to refactor. We should never have reached this point, but code rot is a death by a thousand cuts and there’s only so much technical debt that can be factored into your workload.