Your Code as a Crime Scene, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2Treat Your Code as a Crime Scene

You’ve seen how today’s codebases are getting increasingly more complicated, making it impossible for any individual to maintain a holistic overview of the system. Further, you’ve also learned how traditional complexity metrics are inadequate on their own, lacking context and priorities.

Now, imagine for a moment that you had a map of your codebase. A map that would not only point out the strong and weak parts of the code but also highlight the main productivity bottlenecks where accidental complexity impacts your team the most. Having this information would let you prioritize improvements to the most urgent problems, guided by data.

In this chapter, we turn the thought experiment into reality. We do ...