Beyond Clean Code & Code Quality

Beyond Clean Code & Code Quality By @softwaregarden Papapetrou Patroklos
Krakow, December 5th 2017

Krakow, December 5th 2017, Beyond Clean Code & Code Quality
by @softwaregarden

by @softwaregarden Ego Boost • I’m from Thessaloniki, Greece • The city of “White” Tower… • …which is not white at all!

by @softwaregarden Ego Boost • I’m from Thessaloniki, Greece • The city of “Frappe” … • …a special coffee that you can ﬁnd (almost) ONLY in Greece

by @softwaregarden Ego Boost • I’m from Thessaloniki, Greece • The city of “Mpougatsa” … • …a pie you can ﬁll with (almost) everything

by @softwaregarden Ego Boost(seriously now) • Principal Software Engineer @ • Co-author of “SonarQube in Action” book • Software Quality evangelist - Software Gardener • Local Tech Community Leader • Father of two

by @softwaregarden What is this talk NOT about • Quality metrics • Code reviews • Speciﬁc tool(s) • Speciﬁc programming language(s) • Explaining technical debt

by @softwaregarden I had a dream… ...that one day code quality management will be as much as important and essential as is today source code management

by @softwaregarden How it all starts?

by @softwaregarden We measured the code quality!

by @softwaregarden We measured the code quality! Now what? Duplications Density Code Coverage Cyclomatic Complexity Cognitive Complexity Branch Coverage Line Coverage Quality Flows Incoming coupling Outgoing coupling Performance Issues Style / Format inconsistencies Lack of Documentation Security vulnerabilities

by @softwaregarden We measured the code quality! Now what?

by @softwaregarden Focus on 3 categories •Security •Maintainability •Reliability

by @softwaregarden Sitting on the Technical Debt smell bomb

by @softwaregarden Technical Debt Deﬁnition If the debt grows large enough, eventually the company will spend more on servicing its debt than it invests in increasing the value of its other assets Steve McConell - Author of Code Complete

by @softwaregarden So many questions • How do we get management buy-in? • How Technical Debt affects our team(s)? • What about legacy code?

by @softwaregarden So many questions • Product team pushes for new features. No time for refactoring. What should we do? • Is there a silver bullet to tackle code quality? • What to ﬁx / improve ﬁrst?

by @softwaregarden How to convince my “superior” • Wear different hats for technical and non-technical people • Speak the management language • Provide a single number in terms of currency or time to market • Don’t ask for permission • Do a PoC

by @softwaregarden How to convince my “superior”

by @softwaregarden The human factor of Technical Debt Frustrated developers

by @softwaregarden The human factor of Technical Debt Low morale - People leave

by @softwaregarden The human factor of Technical Debt Hard to get new people in - business collapses

by @softwaregarden Should we improve quality of legacy code? • Yes

by @softwaregarden Should we improve quality of legacy code? • Yes No

by @softwaregarden Should we improve quality of legacy code? • Yes No It depends • Useless to refactor code that is never changing • Keep an eye on code churn • Avoid refactoring for the shake of refactoring

by @softwaregarden Product team pushes for new features • Do you work for a startup or a Greenﬁeld project ?

by @softwaregarden Product team pushes for new features • Do you work for a startup or a Greenﬁeld project ? • YES!

by @softwaregarden Product team pushes for new features • Do you work for a startup or a Greenﬁeld project ? • YES! - Great then just stop adding crappy code

by @softwaregarden Product team pushes for new features • Do you work for a startup or a Greenﬁeld project ?

by @softwaregarden Product team pushes for new features • Do you work for a startup or a Greenﬁeld project ? • No!

by @softwaregarden Product team pushes for new features • Do you work for a startup or a Greenﬁeld project ? • No! - Then you are in deep shit

by @softwaregarden Product team pushes for new features • Do you work for a startup or a Greenﬁeld project ? • No! - Then you are in deep shit • Try to keep a balance • Pretend you are in a Greenﬁeld project

by @softwaregarden What’s the best way to improve code Quality? • No silver bullet • Patience • Consistency • Professionalism • Technical Excellence

by @softwaregarden Strategies to tackle technical debt Hold your ground

by @softwaregarden Strategies to tackle technical debt Move the goal posts

by @softwaregarden Strategies to tackle technical debt The Boy Scout approach

by @softwaregarden Strategies to tackle technical debt Code Quality Time - Fix the worst ﬁrst

by @softwaregarden Strategies to tackle technical debt Re-architect / Re-engineer

by @softwaregarden Bonus slide - Automation • Step #0 - Deﬁne a common set of objective quality rules, agreed by all team members • Step #1 - Automatically check your code locally (Pre-commit checks) • Step #2 - Integrate with your favourite CI engine • Step #3 - Integrate with your favourite code review tool (Post-commit checks) • Step #4 - Reject PRs if quality threshold is hit

by @softwaregarden Code review made simple Quality Issues found / reported Unit Tests Coverage Integration Tests Coverage

by @softwaregarden Take - aways • The ﬁght against technical debt starts once you understand the metrics - it doesn’t end that time • Poor code quality has side-effects to the team’s psychology • Be patient and don’t give up • One size doesn’t ﬁt all. Experiment. Find your way

by @softwaregarden

Beyond Clean Code & Code Quality

Beyond Clean Code & Code Quality

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