🚀 Software Technical Debt
Software technical debt is taking sub-optimal development practices to rush and deliver something quickly. This often involves cutting corners, therefore leaving some code tidying up to catch up in the future. Accruing technical debt causes sub-optimal development practices to pile up and the code base eventually becomes unmanageable. Therefore, the entire development process will come to a standstill. Organisations will have to invest money and time to clean up the technical debt before they can move forward with the project.
Some criteria to measure technical debt,
⁉ Poorly written code
🍄 Everything is coded from scratch, and no attempts were made to use existing functions
🤥 No code comments and/or no following standards or procedures
🛡 Involves no code testing, i.e. unit testing
🍜 Extremely large functions and they largely depend on other functions
How do you manage software technical debt? Do you allocate some time between release cycles or during release cycles to progressively clear out any accrued technical debt? I'd be thrilled to hear your opinion. 😎
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