Chances are you are interested in leveling up your skills as a programmer and decided to start finding topics you are interested in learning something new such as the importance of logging in programming. Unfortunately, most programmers don\u2019t look for information about logging, especially entry-level programmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are the key reasons why logging is important in software development:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s look at the reasons why logging is important in software development. However, before covering each, I share why typically experienced software engineers see the importance of logging as they advance in their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The reality is adding logs is not the sexiest topic to talk about. In the end, logging, as you can infer, is about inserting a record in a document whatever you want to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What would anyone research about logging?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trust me, you want to read about this before you finish the development of your first project. No matter how many years of experience you have, this article should be helpful for you. Oftentimes seasoned programmers understand the value of logging, and I could see that happening. It took me about three years of my professional career as a developer to start adding more logs to my projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just to make sure, don\u2019t go ahead and add a log for every single line of code in your app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is not about adding more logs and magically becoming a better programmer. Also, you will likely get a pull request (PR) full of comments about removing those logs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Logging is an essential aspect of software development. If you are a junior developer, you might say logging is not necessary as you can always debug each line of code and gain a complete understanding of what is going on in an app, such as checking the values of the parameters passed to a function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And to be honest that\u2019s a valid argument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Why bother adding more lines of code with logs if you have previously debugged and verified the code is working correctly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to know why logging is important the hard way, go ahead and finish developing that project you\u2019ve been working on for months and publish it to a production environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Whenever you get users bombarding your customer service, aka your email, about unexpected errors they found in your app, we can go for a cup of coffee and have time to talk about how you are going to quickly fix those unexpected bugs that even the QA team couldn\u2019t find during the testing phase, and that is if you have enough budget to pay someone to test your project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the way, I meant a cup of hot chocolate as I\u2019m not a coffee guy\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you don\u2019t want to make such a commitment to writing your whole app without writing logs, take this piece of advice: Add logs to your code. Skeptical about what I say? I would too. However, I have my arguments why writing logs is important for any programmer and must be part of any project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Table of Contents<\/p>\n<\/div>Only Experienced Software Engineers Know The Importance of Logging<\/h2>\n\n\n\n