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Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development
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Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development

by Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, Ipek Ozkaya
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 18m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development

Chapter 6. Technical Debt and Architecture

In this chapter, we explain how to recognize technical debt at the architectural level. We introduce lightweight structural analysis techniques that you can apply to the code or the design to help identify and understand design decisions that lead to technical debt.

Beyond the Code

In Chapter 5, “Technical Debt and the Source Code,” we showed how the accumulation of small deficiencies in the code can lead to a substantive amount of technical debt, which can in turn make forward progress harder, more costly, and more error prone. But there is increasing evidence that the most expensive technical debt is related to the architecture of the software system—and it is harder to pay back. The effective management ...

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