• A concept from the book The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, the developing of skeleton functionality that can serve as a proof of concept but also remain part of the later software. “Tracer code,” or “code as tracer bullets,” is a term borrowed from military shooting with brightly-colored tracer ammunition. Tracer code is different from prototyping, whose code may be abandoned.

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