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Understand and manage technical debt

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Understand and manage technical debt

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- [Instructor] Technical debt. What is technical debt? Technical debt is any code added now that will take more time to fix later on. There's various types of technical debt, and there are a few popular ones that we're going to look at: code analysis, duplicate code, code complexity, flaky tests, and one more if you remember, feature flags. So how do you manage technical debt? There's a few ways to manage technical debt out there. Solutions such as SonarQube and SonarCloud from SonarSource collaborate with Azure DevOps to provide strategies to facilitate data gathering and present it in a way that helps manage and reduce technical debt. SonarQube is an open-source platform for understanding and managing technical debt. Visual Studio. Visual Studio has a number of different options available to you for managing technical debt. You can manage your maintainability index which calculates the index value from zero to a hundred, and that represents the relative ease of maintaining the code.…

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