Software Design X-Rays

The World of Behavioral Code Analysis

Welcome, dear reader—I’m happy to have you here! Together we’ll dive into the fascinating field of evolving software systems to learn how behavioral code analysis helps us make better decisions. This is important because our average software project is much less efficient than it could be.

The history of large-scale software systems is a tale of cost overruns, death marches, and heroic fights with legacy code monsters. One prominent reason is technical debt, which represents code that’s more expensive to maintain than it should be. Repaying technical debt is hard due to the scale of modern software projects; with hundreds of developers and a multitude of technologies, no one has a holistic overview. We’re ...