Dan Nicola | Maxcode Florin Cardasim | Endava
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Code Debt
Architectural Debt
Test Debt
Knowledge Debt
Technological Debt
Customers are annoyed by bugs or
missing features due to low productivity.
This leads to additional costs for the helpdesk,
which annoys the people there, too.
Increased development time and quality
issues are also a problem for marketing.
Bugs lead to frequent patches,
which annoys the operations team.
Many annoyed parties definitely
don’t make the management happy.
Last but not least also the developers
are suffering. No one wants to deliver
bad work.
“the only one who can ever change this code is Claudiu”
“let’s just copy & paste this code”
“it’s ok for now but we’ll refactor it later!”
“if I touch that code everything will break”
“ToDo/FixMe: this should be fixed before release”
“let’s finish the testing in the next release”
Cover it with tests and then modify it
Making it extensible and then extend it
Make it modular and then rewrite it
e.g. 10% of the available time
Some teams do a purely technical release to improve the codebase from time to time
This approach is only useful if a list with the really necessary refactoring already exists
Established best practice to define purely technical work packages
Technical change to be made
Why this technical change is important for the project
In which part of the code the technical change has to be performed
Debt repayment
Debt conversion
Just pay the interest
Technical Debt is unavoidable
Technical Debt is not always bad, no need to be (fully) repaid in
every case
We’ve got tools (Sonar, inCode, many others)
Technical Debt is often a cultural issue, not a technical one
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