How is technical debt best measured? What metric(s) are most useful? [duplicate]
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How can I quantify the amount of technical debt that exists in a project?
Why would an employer ask for a ‘long’ code sample? [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.
What should my “large codebase sample” look like? [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.
How to justify rewriting/revamping legacy software in a business case? [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: How can I convince management to deal with technical debt? (17 answers) Closed 11 years ago. I work for a great little software company which makes good revenue from our main software package. The problem for me is that it’s almost unmaintainable. It’s written in Delphi 7 (has upgraded […]
Reusable VS clean code – where’s the balance?
Let’s say I have a data model for a blog posts and have two use-cases of that model – getting all blogposts and getting only blogposts which were written by specific author.
Should we exclude code for the code coverage analysis?
I’m working on several applications, mainly legacy ones.
Currently, their code coverage is quite low: generally between 10 and 50%.
Distinguishing repetitive code with the same implementation
Given this sample code
How can you get constructive criticism for your code?
My team rarely does code review, mainly because we don’t have enough time and people lack the energy and will to do so. But I would really like to know what people think about my code when they read it. This way, I have a better understanding how other people think and tailor my code accordingly so it’s easier to read.
Are flag variables an absolute evil? [closed]
Closed 8 years ago.
Should comments say WHY the program is doing what it is doing? (opinion on a dictum by the inventor of Forth) [duplicate]
Use comments sparingly! (I bet that’s welcome.) Remember that program
you looked through – the one with all the comments? How helpful were
all those comments? How soon did you quit reading them? Programs are
self-documenting, even assembler programs, with a modicum of help from
mnemonics. It does no good to say: