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What is considered source code?I have seem many posts about technology that lets you change the behavior of a program with changing the code. They claim that changes to production environments can be made as easily as changing a config file. Many times these config files hold import details like database queries. My question is, what is considered source code? Obviously, anything written in a programming language and compiled is source code. But what about non-compiled code? Are SQL statements considered source code? What if they are in a config file? Should the database structure be considered "source code"? What about the stored procedures it contains? How about a config file that makes minor changes the way the program works? For example, using a different factory class based on a flag. What if the changes are major? For example, one that injects code in the fashion used in Aspect Oriented Programming. This is important because, in the real world, all changes to source code need to be documented and tested. By Jonathan Allen at 2006-01-12 21:40 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 26795 reads
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