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Your Code as a Crime Scene, Second Edition: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs

by Adam Tornhill
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798888650325
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
  • Publisher Imprint: Pragmatic Bookshelf
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  • Pages: 335
  • Original Price: USD 53.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 577 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Software Development & Engineering / Quality Assurance & Testing, Programming / General, and Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design

Jack the Ripper and legacy codebases have more in common than you'd think. Inspired by forensic psychology methods, you can apply strategies to identify problems in your existing code, assess refactoring direction, and understand how your team influences the software architecture. With its unique blend of criminal psychology and code analysis, Your Code as a Crime Scene arms you with the techniques you need to take on any codebase, no matter what programming language you use.

Software development might well be the most challenging task humanity ever attempted. As systems scale up, they also become increasingly complex, expensive to maintain, and difficult to reason about. We can always write more tests, try to refactor, and even fire up a debugger to understand complex coding constructs. That's a great starting point, but you can do so much better.

Take inspiration from forensic psychology techniques to understand and improve existing code. Visualize codebases via a geographic profile from commit data to find development hotspots, prioritize technical debt, and uncover hidden dependencies. Get data and develop strategies to make the business case for larger refactorings. Detect and fix organizational problems from the vantage point of the software architecture to remove bottlenecks for the teams.

The original Your Code as a Crime Scene from 2014 pioneered techniques for understanding the intersection of people and code. This new edition reflects a decade of additional experience from hundreds of projects. Updated techniques, novel case studies, and extensive new material adds to the strengths of this cult classic.

Change how you view software development and join the hunt for better code!

What You Need:

You need to be comfortable reading code. You also need to use Git (or Subversion, Mercurial or similar version-control tool).

Tornhill, Adam: - Adam Tornhill is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He's the CTO and founder of CodeScene, where he develops tools for software engineering intelligence. Adam is also the author of multiple technical books, including Software Design X-Raysand Patterns in C, as well as a software researcher. Adam's other interests include modern history, music, retro computing, and martial arts.

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