Here Be Dragons: The Hidden Gems of Tech Debt
summary
Uses Flog, Reek, SimpleCov, RubyCritic and Skunk to turn heuristics into measurable signals: RubyCritic produces a GPA-style cost and a churn vs complexity scatterplot, churn counts range from single digits to 27, and files with high complexity and frequent churn land upper-right. SimpleCov gives percent coverage (example: account ≈90% while user has none), Skunk computes a skunk score by applying a penalty to cost based on missing coverage, so teams pick refactors by measurable delta in GPA score.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 5:221. The Complexity Dragon
- 17:47Code Coverage
- 23:40Dragon Slaying 101: - Define what's a dragon
- 23:56What's a dragon? Team discussion on
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