Your Code as a Crime Scene

How to Read This Book

This book is meant to be read from start to finish. Later parts build on techniques that I introduce gradually over the course of several chapters. Let’s look at the big picture.

Part I Shows How You Detect Problematic Code

In Part I, you’ll learn techniques to identify complex code that you also need to work with often. No matter how much we enjoy our work, when it comes to commercial products, time and money always matter. In this part, you’ll learn methods to identify and prioritize the changes to the code that give you the most value.

We’ll build the techniques on forensic methods used to predict and track down serial offenders. You’ll see that each crime forms part of a larger pattern. Similarly, each change we make ...