Treat your Code as a Crime Scene
Topics:
Software Delivery Craft Matters
technical debt
healthy code
code analysis
efficient teams
Level: General

In this workshop you learn novel analysis techniques that support both technical and organizational decisions around your codebase. The techniques use data from the most underused informational source that we have in our industry: our version-control system. Combined with metaphors from forensic psychology you learn to analyze version-control data to:

  • Identify the code that’s most expensive to maintain amongst millions of lines of code.

  • Detect architectural decay and learn to control it.

  • Analyse different architectures such as layers and microservices.

  • Measure how multiple developers influence code quality and what you can do about it.

  • Uncover the social side of your codebase and learn to use the data to guide on- and off-boarding.

During the workshop, you get access to CodeScene – a behavioral code analysis tool that automates the analyses – which we use for the practical exercises. We also discuss open-source alternatives where suitable, and see how we can use Git itself for data mining.

Participants are encouraged to take this opportunity to analyse their own codebase and get specific take-away information around their system.

Speaker
Craft 2023 - Adam Tornhill
Adam Tornhill
Founder at CodeScene

Adam Tornhill is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He’s the founder of CodeScene, the leading Software Engineering Intelligence tool. Adam is also the author of multiple technical books, including the best selling Your Code as a Crime Scene, as well as an award-winning software researcher. Adam’s other interests include modern history, music, retro computing, and mar...