May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
215 pages
6h 21m
English
book
Software Architecture Metrics
by Christian Ciceri, Dave Farley, Neal Ford, Andrew Harmel-Law, Michael Keeling, Carola Lilienthal, João Rosa, Alexander von Zitzewitz, Rene Weiss, Eoin Woods
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Chapter 4. Improve Your Architecture with the Modularity Maturity Index
In the last 20 years, a lot of time and money has gone into software systems that have been implemented in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, PHP, etc. The focus in the development projects was often on the quick implementation of features and not on the quality of the software architecture. This practice has led to an increasing amount of technical debt—unnecessary complexity that costs extra money in maintenance—accumulating over time. Today, these systems have to be called legacy systems because their maintenance and expansion is expensive, tedious, and unstable.
This chapter discusses how to measure the amount of technical debt in a software system with the modularity maturity index (MMI). The MMI of a codebase or the different applications in an IT landscape gives management and teams a guideline for deciding which software systems need to be refactored, which should be replaced, and which you don’t need to worry about. The goal is to find out which technical debt should be resolved so that the architecture becomes sustainable and maintenance less expensive.
Technical Debt
The term technical debt was coined by Ward Cunningham in 1992: “Technical debt arises when consciously or unconsciously wrong or suboptimal technical decisions are made. These wrong or suboptimal decisions lead to additional work at a later point in time, which makes maintenance and expansion more ...
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