Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change

Chapter 7. Design Debt

Technical features that involve improving software quality attributes can be prioritized based on the cost of not addressing them.

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Robustness

One way to look at design is from the perspective of robustness. The ability of software to be resilient in the face of iterative and incremental change is a measure of how well the design meets business demand. This goes well beyond the code’s design into the structural integrity of the supporting infrastructure.

The robustness of a component, application, or enterprise is determined by how quickly it can be acted upon with new knowledge. This has become more important ...