Your Code as a Crime Scene, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Deepen Your Investigation

The techniques in this book are a starting point. There’s much more information in our code repositories. So, let’s look at some other approaches. What follows are strategies that give you even more information should the need arise. These ideas may also serve as an inspiration once you choose to explore the topic in more depth.

Investigate More Than Source Code

If you have other artifacts stored under version control, you can also include them in the analyses. Some examples include documents, requirement specifications, or manuals for your product. Perhaps you’ll even look for temporal dependencies between your requirements and code.

The following figure is an example of a non-code analysis. It shows the hotspots in ...