Technical Debt Trap
summary
Argues that real technical debt is deliberate, refactorable code with tests, not messy legacy which is re-labeled crust, and shows a plotted cost-of-change where continual refactoring keeps change cheap while no-refactor curves skyrocket. Recommends monitoring trends not points via code coverage (watch trends, not absolute %), cyclomatic complexity, churn and a maintainability index, avoiding periodic “cleaning sprints” in favor of clean code prerequisite and the Boy Scout rule—fix as you touch code so the codebase improves where it matters.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00TECHNICAL DEBT TRAP
- 6:04TECHNICAL DEBT IS GOOD
- 16:43TECHNICAL DEBT?
- 23:14CRUFT OR DEBT?
- 31:48CRUFT IS A BAD DECISION
- 38:30WINNING STRATEGY Clean Constantly
- 40:46MONITOR YOUR CRUFT
- 46:35REVIEW Technical Debt
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