Voxxed Days Vienna 2018 - Crystal Ball to Prioritize Technical Debt

In this session you'll get an introduction to techniques that help us uncover both problematic code as well as the social dimension of the teams that build your software. The techniques are based on software evolution and findings from various fields within psychology. This combination lets you prioritize the parts of your system that benefit the most from improvements, detect organizational issues and make practical decisions guided by data.

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1. @AdamTornhill
2. “Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development” Questioning Technical Debt https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html @AdamTornhill
3. Interest Rate Is A Function Of Time http://i.imgur.com/a8Xo4Hp.png @AdamTornhill
4. All Technical Debt Isn’t Equal @AdamTornhill
5. @AdamTornhill Most Technical Debt Isn’t Technical
6. There’s A Strong Link Between Technical Debt And The Organisation @AdamTornhill
7. Wish List: Information to Prioritize Technical Debt @AdamTornhill Where’s the Highest Interest Rate? Does the Architecture Support the way our System Evolves? Any Productivity Bottlenecks for Inter-Team Coordination?
8. Collective Intelligence @AdamTornhill Uncover Evolutionary Patterns In A System Commit: b557ca5 Date: 2016-02-12 Author: Kevin Flynn Fix behavior of StartsWithPrefix 8 27 src/Mvc.Abstractions/ModelBinding/ModelStateDictionary.cs 1 10 src/Mvc.Core/ControllerBase.cs 1 1 src/Mvc.Core/Internal/ElementalValueProvider.cs 1 39 src/Mvc.Core/Internal/PrefixContainer.cs Commit: fd6d28d Date 2016-02-10 Author: Professor Falken Make AddController not overwrite existing IControllerTypeProvider 8 1 src/Core/Internal/ControllersAsServices.cs 48 0 test/Core.Test/Internal/ControllerAsServicesTest.cs 13 0 test/Mvc.FunctionalTests/ControllerFromServicesTests.cs Commit: 910f013 Date :2016-02-05 Author Lisbeth Salander Fixes #4050: Throw an exception when media types are empty. 20 1 src/Mvc.Core/Formatters/InputFormatter.cs Social Information A Time Dimension
9. Hotspots Where’s The Highest Interest Rate?
10. Hotspots - A Tool To Prioritize @AdamTornhill
11. Code Complexity Code Change Frequency Hotspot @AdamTornhill
12. Hotspots - A Tool To Prioritize Hotspots Hotspots
13. All Code is Equal …but some Code is more equal than others* * Sorry, George Orwell
14. Why Hotspots Work 1 Year in Roslyn (C#, VB) 6 Years of Erlang 12 Years of Ruby on Rails Each file in the system Change Frequency Reference: Your Code as a Crime Scene, ISBN:1680500384 Prioritize improvements here! Ignore the long tail
15. Hotspots
16. Case Study: @AdamTornhill
17. gc.cpp @AdamTornhill
18. File Level Hotspots Function Level Hotspots X Ray Recommended functions to improve. Hotspots X-Ray
19. Read More: Function-Level @AdamTornhill
20. Normalization of Deviance @AdamTornhill
21. Supervise your Complexity Trends @AdamTornhill Warning Sign! Refactoring Increases again
22. Hotspots Summary Hotspots find the code with the highest interest rate. Hotspots work because all code isn’t equal. Supervise the Complexity Trend of your Hotspots.
23. Evaluate Your Architectural Patterns Does the Architecture Support the way our System Evolves?
24. Code is Auto-Destructive Art @AdamTornhill
25. DRM Shared DRM/AMD … Specify Your Logical Components @AdamTornhill
26. Identify Hotspots on a (Micro)Service Level @AdamTornhill
27. FuelInjector Temporal Coupling Diagnostics Combustion Commit #1 Commit #2 Commit #3 Time Read More: http://www.empear.com/blog/software-revolution-part3/ @AdamTornhill
28. Model Controller View Services ORM Repository SQL Layers: A Separation of Concerns General Observation: 30-70 % of all commits touch multiple layers @AdamTornhill Change Coupling
29. Supervise The Change Coupling Between Services @AdamTornhill Temporal Coupling (potentially across repository boundaries)
30. The Microservices Shotgun Surgery Pattern @AdamTornhill
31. Tools Evolution Radar http://reveal.inf.usi.ch/web/dambros/tools/evoradar.php CodeScene: https://codescene.io/ Moose Platform: open source platform http://www.moosetechnology.org/ Code Maat: open source, text-only (GPL) https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat
32. Architecture Summary Identify your Architectural Hotspots. Know your System’s Tipping Point. Use Temporal Coupling to Evaluate your Architecture.
33. Meet The Social Side of Your Code Any Productivity Bottlenecks for inter-team coordination?
34. Process Loss Process Loss The Potential Productivity Individual Contributions Real Productivity Team Work @AdamTornhill
35. Diffusion of Responsibility
36. Fractal Value: M. D’Ambros, M. Lanza, and H Gall. Fractal Figures: Visualizing Development Effort for CVS Entities. Inter-Team Overlap Fractal Value 0 ~1.0 Views Integration Tasks Backup Tests Measure Team Coordination Excess Parallel Work The Diffusion of Responsibility
37. Measuring Conway’s Law Architectural Pattern: Package by Feature Views Features @AdamTornhill Front-End Team Export Team Recommendations Team Ads Team Calculations Team Backup Team
38. Team Team Team Team Team Team Team Team Team Team Team Team The Perils of Feature Teams @AdamTornhill
39. Align Your Architecture and your Organisation @AdamTornhill
40. Conway’s Law Is An Over-Simplification @AdamTornhill
41. @AdamTornhill We attribute the same observable behaviour to different factors depending on whether it concerns our group or another one. The Fundamental Attribution Error We overestimate personality factors when explaining the actions of others. “Our” work “Their” work
42. Provide Broad Knowledge Boundaries @AdamTornhill
43. Front-End Team Export Team Recommendations Team Ads Team Calculations Team Backup Team Measure Your Operational Boundaries @AdamTornhill
44. Make Decisions Influenced By Data @AdamTornhill
45. @AdamTornhill Blog on Behavioral Code Analysis http://www.empear.com/blog/ Software Design X-Rays: Fix Technical Debt with Behavioral Code Analysis https://pragprog.com/book/atevol/software-design-x-rays Run the Analyses in CodeScene: https://codescene.io/ adam.tornhill@empear.com